NJShore4Life wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:59 am
I left out a big one that I totally forgot, Silvio DeVita Westside Capo has lived in Toms River forever. I’ve seen his house before, it is a gorgeous house right on the bay off Fischer Blvd. He has probably the perfect house right on the water I’ve ever seen, really nice.
Hes a Newark Area guy but commutes from the shore in Toms River.
If he’s still alive and kicking he’s gotta be well into his 90s , I haven’t heard much about him or seen him out around town in years, probably since I was a kid was the last time I saw him in person in town.
-Dante
Great info and a great read Dante. As always.
What's silvio's address. I'd like to Google street view.
Cheers.
1. i think he's dead
2. if you google you will get the google streetview....
I’m not aware that he’s dead. There was a different Silvio DeVita (born in 1924, where the Genovese DeVita was born in 1931) who died in TR in 2014. If the Genovese DeVita has died recently, I haven’t seen anything yet.
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PolackTony wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 2:48 pm
I’m not aware that he’s dead. There was a different Silvio DeVita (born in 1924, where the Genovese DeVita was born in 1931) who died in TR in 2014. If the Genovese DeVita has died recently, I haven’t seen anything yet.
Thats the one i saw. In toms river. 90 years old. If not him then not dead
peteyboxcars wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:56 am
Toms River , Brick Twp , Florham Park and East Hanover. lol
At this point it feels like the whole entire DeCavalante Family lives in Toms River.
It all seriousness though there’s probably about 10-12 Decavs in TR, I grew up with a lot of their sons/daughters. The whole Peterstown Section (Mainly Sicilian Neighborhood) of Elizabeth has basically moved to Toms River.
Pino Schifilitti lives down the street from me, I see him everyday when I am out walking my dog. He is a friendly, little old Italian man who still has an Accent from the Old Country, loves my dog and always asks to pet him on our walks. Pino’s wife was able to keep the house all those years Pino was away, he did a LONG bid away. People in the neighborhood looked out for and helped his wife while he was away all those years.
Andy Merola owns a spectacular Italian Deli in town on Fischer Blvd called Mid-Shore Meats that I shop at almost every other day, Ive seen him a lot around town since he got out of his long bid. We have mutual friends/acquaintances and I’ve actually gotten to know him a little since his release - Great Guy and really hit the ground running since he got out , he owns a home right on the water in Toms River and his son is wrestling D1 at an Ivy League School. I wouldn’t mess with Andy , definitely a tough guy who can handle himself. He likes to go out for drinks on the weekend at Hemmingways in Seaside which is owned by the Craparottas, I grew up and attended school with them.
Scoops and Big Lou both have Summer Shore houses in Toms River not too far from me. Scoops is a multi millionaire so he has many properties he owns to spend his time at , usually only down here at the Jersey Shore in the Summertime same thing for Big Lou.
Joe Perna has a house in TR right before the bridge which is where in the Operation Heat indictment they held the making ceremony at.
You really only see the Perna’s down here in the Summer, I’ve met John a few times when he was a student at Seton Hall and then about 13 years ago I spent an entire weekend of debauchery with him when I went on a bachelor party to AC with him because my one older buddy was in his Frat at Seton Hall with all the other Sons who’s Fathers were in the Life that all attended Seton Hall together around the same time late 1990s/early 2000s. Those were some crazy times.
Johnny is the scariest, toughest, craziest mother fucker I’ve ever met but I haven’t seen him in 13 years so I would imagine he mellowed a bit plus he eventually got straightened out.
However, Toms River is beginning to change rapidly and will be unrecognizable in ten years because all the Hasidics/Orthodox Jews are starting to move in.
They already completely took over the areas of Toms River that are close to the border with Lakewood and now they’re starting to slowly move into the areas of Eastern Toms River by the water where all the Italians have always been. With them of course comes run down homes, houses that they rent out as slumlords, the public school system ruined, and all the shithole discount merchants/stores that cater to them popping up. It’s the beginning of the end unfortunately…..
-Dante
Yep that sums up Toms River ! Also Brick as well. lol Also Louie HaHa from the Bonanno's had a house in the bay in TR before he went away. Now he has a waterfront condo on the "river" by downtown TR. And I am sure there are more. The Jews took over those nice developments in North Dover section of TR off New Hamphire. They are really nice homes so they are making $$ somewhere. I wasn't aware they were moving in off Fischer Blvd. That sucks. If you go over the mantaloking bridge in brick make a left head north on RT35 around 5pm in the summer...you will see banged up old police cars and mini vans lining up RT 35 in Mantaloking. The jews hit the beach there after 5pm when its free lol
peteyboxcars wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:56 am
Toms River , Brick Twp , Florham Park and East Hanover. lol
At this point it feels like the whole entire DeCavalante Family lives in Toms River.
It all seriousness though there’s probably about 10-12 Decavs in TR, I grew up with a lot of their sons/daughters. The whole Peterstown Section (Mainly Sicilian Neighborhood) of Elizabeth has basically moved to Toms River.
Pino Schifilitti lives down the street from me, I see him everyday when I am out walking my dog. He is a friendly, little old Italian man who still has an Accent from the Old Country, loves my dog and always asks to pet him on our walks. Pino’s wife was able to keep the house all those years Pino was away, he did a LONG bid away. People in the neighborhood looked out for and helped his wife while he was away all those years.
Andy Merola owns a spectacular Italian Deli in town on Fischer Blvd called Mid-Shore Meats that I shop at almost every other day, Ive seen him a lot around town since he got out of his long bid. We have mutual friends/acquaintances and I’ve actually gotten to know him a little since his release - Great Guy and really hit the ground running since he got out , he owns a home right on the water in Toms River and his son is wrestling D1 at an Ivy League School. I wouldn’t mess with Andy , definitely a tough guy who can handle himself. He likes to go out for drinks on the weekend at Hemmingways in Seaside which is owned by the Craparottas, I grew up and attended school with them.
Scoops and Big Lou both have Summer Shore houses in Toms River not too far from me. Scoops is a multi millionaire so he has many properties he owns to spend his time at , usually only down here at the Jersey Shore in the Summertime same thing for Big Lou.
Joe Perna has a house in TR right before the bridge which is where in the Operation Heat indictment they held the making ceremony at.
You really only see the Perna’s down here in the Summer, I’ve met John a few times when he was a student at Seton Hall and then about 13 years ago I spent an entire weekend of debauchery with him when I went on a bachelor party to AC with him because my one older buddy was in his Frat at Seton Hall with all the other Sons who’s Fathers were in the Life that all attended Seton Hall together around the same time late 1990s/early 2000s. Those were some crazy times.
Johnny is the scariest, toughest, craziest mother fucker I’ve ever met but I haven’t seen him in 13 years so I would imagine he mellowed a bit plus he eventually got straightened out.
However, Toms River is beginning to change rapidly and will be unrecognizable in ten years because all the Hasidics/Orthodox Jews are starting to move in.
They already completely took over the areas of Toms River that are close to the border with Lakewood and now they’re starting to slowly move into the areas of Eastern Toms River by the water where all the Italians have always been. With them of course comes run down homes, houses that they rent out as slumlords, the public school system ruined, and all the shithole discount merchants/stores that cater to them popping up. It’s the beginning of the end unfortunately…..
-Dante
Yep that sums up Toms River ! Also Brick as well. lol Also Louie HaHa from the Bonanno's had a house in the bay in TR before he went away. Now he has a waterfront condo on the "river" by downtown TR. And I am sure there are more. The Jews took over those nice developments in North Dover section of TR off New Hamphire. They are really nice homes so they are making $$ somewhere. I wasn't aware they were moving in off Fischer Blvd. That sucks. If you go over the mantaloking bridge in brick make a left head north on RT35 around 5pm in the summer...you will see banged up old police cars and mini vans lining up RT 35 in Mantaloking. The jews hit the beach there after 5pm when its free lol
Yes , another one I forgot about that has lived in Toms River for years - Louie Haha . I completely forgot about him, haven’t seen him around town in years and I know he was away for awhile.
Who else am I forgetting about? Angelo Prisco lived in Toms River too before he went away for Life, another one I forgot. I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting about…
Yes, I saw the Jews all Summer long waiting to go to the Bay Beaches after 5pm when it was free with their 7 children per family pouring out of beat up minivans and 25 year old Ford Taurus’s with their hub caps missing lol
peteyboxcars wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:56 am
Toms River , Brick Twp , Florham Park and East Hanover. lol
At this point it feels like the whole entire DeCavalante Family lives in Toms River.
It all seriousness though there’s probably about 10-12 Decavs in TR, I grew up with a lot of their sons/daughters. The whole Peterstown Section (Mainly Sicilian Neighborhood) of Elizabeth has basically moved to Toms River.
Pino Schifilitti lives down the street from me, I see him everyday when I am out walking my dog. He is a friendly, little old Italian man who still has an Accent from the Old Country, loves my dog and always asks to pet him on our walks. Pino’s wife was able to keep the house all those years Pino was away, he did a LONG bid away. People in the neighborhood looked out for and helped his wife while he was away all those years.
Andy Merola owns a spectacular Italian Deli in town on Fischer Blvd called Mid-Shore Meats that I shop at almost every other day, Ive seen him a lot around town since he got out of his long bid. We have mutual friends/acquaintances and I’ve actually gotten to know him a little since his release - Great Guy and really hit the ground running since he got out , he owns a home right on the water in Toms River and his son is wrestling D1 at an Ivy League School. I wouldn’t mess with Andy , definitely a tough guy who can handle himself. He likes to go out for drinks on the weekend at Hemmingways in Seaside which is owned by the Craparottas, I grew up and attended school with them.
Scoops and Big Lou both have Summer Shore houses in Toms River not too far from me. Scoops is a multi millionaire so he has many properties he owns to spend his time at , usually only down here at the Jersey Shore in the Summertime same thing for Big Lou.
Joe Perna has a house in TR right before the bridge which is where in the Operation Heat indictment they held the making ceremony at.
You really only see the Perna’s down here in the Summer, I’ve met John a few times when he was a student at Seton Hall and then about 13 years ago I spent an entire weekend of debauchery with him when I went on a bachelor party to AC with him because my one older buddy was in his Frat at Seton Hall with all the other Sons who’s Fathers were in the Life that all attended Seton Hall together around the same time late 1990s/early 2000s. Those were some crazy times.
Johnny is the scariest, toughest, craziest mother fucker I’ve ever met but I haven’t seen him in 13 years so I would imagine he mellowed a bit plus he eventually got straightened out.
However, Toms River is beginning to change rapidly and will be unrecognizable in ten years because all the Hasidics/Orthodox Jews are starting to move in.
They already completely took over the areas of Toms River that are close to the border with Lakewood and now they’re starting to slowly move into the areas of Eastern Toms River by the water where all the Italians have always been. With them of course comes run down homes, houses that they rent out as slumlords, the public school system ruined, and all the shithole discount merchants/stores that cater to them popping up. It’s the beginning of the end unfortunately…..
-Dante
Yep that sums up Toms River ! Also Brick as well. lol Also Louie HaHa from the Bonanno's had a house in the bay in TR before he went away. Now he has a waterfront condo on the "river" by downtown TR. And I am sure there are more. The Jews took over those nice developments in North Dover section of TR off New Hamphire. They are really nice homes so they are making $$ somewhere. I wasn't aware they were moving in off Fischer Blvd. That sucks. If you go over the mantaloking bridge in brick make a left head north on RT35 around 5pm in the summer...you will see banged up old police cars and mini vans lining up RT 35 in Mantaloking. The jews hit the beach there after 5pm when its free lol
Yes , another one I forgot about that has lived in Toms River for years - Louie Haha . I completely forgot about him, haven’t seen him around town in years and I know he was away for awhile.
Who else am I forgetting about? Angelo Prisco lived in Toms River too before he went away for Life, another one I forgot. I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting about…
Yes, I saw the Jews all Summer long waiting to go to the Bay Beaches after 5pm when it was free with their 7 children per family pouring out of beat up minivans and 25 year old Ford Taurus’s with their hub caps missing lol
-Dante
Ray Cagno lived there. Tommy Ricciardi, Mike Taccetta lives in a 55 and older there now(along with the half the decavs lol), Marty T had a lagoon home there in the 80s and 90s as did Mike T . But I agree. Brick and Toms River are in a decline. jew invasion. Higher Crime too. The 80s were the glory days there. Through out the 70s and 80s families moved down full time
I guess we can now add Lanni to list of guys here in Toms River…..
Mob Big Goes Low — Charged In Brutal Beating Of Husband & Wife Owners Of New Jersey Restaurant
Gambino capo Joseph Lanni, a member of the powerful Sicilian faction that now runs the crime family, has been arrested for a crime way beneath his privileged position in organized crime: Lanni is charged with assaulting the husband and wife owners of an eatery on the Jersey Shore where he owns a nearby home. The tirade included a threat to kill them both after he was thrown out for being drunk and disorderly, Gang Land has learned.
Lanni is a close associate of consigliere Lorenzo Mannino, who also serves as "street boss" for official boss Domenico (Italian Dom) Cefalu. But Lanni allegedly behaved like a low life miscreant on a busy Friday night and early Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend at Roxy's Bar and Grille restaurant in Toms River, according to law enforcement authorities and court records.
Authorities say that Lanni, who has a home in Toms River, brutally assaulted the restaurant owners when they left the restaurant, and slashed the tires of their car. He fled before police responded. The 52-year-old mobster was arrested and jailed two weeks ago following an investigation by the Toms River Police, according to court records.
Noting that Lanni had punched and beaten the husband and wife owner of Roxy's and had "threatened both of them with a knife" because the owners "simply asked the defendant to leave" after he became disruptive, Ocean County prosecutor Iva Krasteva argued strongly that Lanni should be detained while he awaits trial on charges that carry up to ten years in prison.
After spending nine days at Rikers Island following his September 19 arrest by the NYPD on a warrant obtained by the Toms River police, Lanni was transferred to the Ocean County jail.
At a detention hearing yesterday, Krasteva stated that after Lanni made threatening phone calls to the owners and left "angry voice mail messages" for them, he returned to the restaurant more than four hours later, "after midnight," and terrorized the owners with threats of violence after they had cleaned up and "were going home for the night."
As the woman owner got into her car, the prosecutor told Superior Court Judge Wendell Daniels, Lanni, who had been hiding behind their car, "entered the vehicle, and stated, 'I'm going to kill you,' and punched (her) on the right side of her head with a closed fist."
When the woman's husband, who was apparently locking up, heard his wife's screams and saw her being attacked, Krasteva continued, "he ran to the vehicle and was attacked by the defendant and an unknown male" who "threw the victim to the ground and proceeded to strike him" several times. The accomplice fled and has not yet been identified.
The arrest complaint states that Lanni punched and kicked her husband "multiple times" while he was on his back laying on the ground next to the couple's Jeep Cherokee as his beaten and terrorized wife remained in the front seat of their car.
"As the victim was getting to his feet," the prosecutor continued, "the defendant took out a knife and punctured the driver's side tires" and "then pointed the knife at the male victim and stated, 'I'm going to get you.'"
Krasteva argued that since Lanni allowed an argument with another patron to escalate into a violent assault against the restaurant owners during which he threatened both victims with a knife, "detention in this case is appropriate" in order to protect the community and Lanni's two victims of any further violence from by the defendant.
Lanni's lawyers Fred Sosinsky and Ed Dimon countered that their client should be released based on the Garden State's laws regarding pre-trial detention, which are similar to New York's. They noted that while the charges were serious, they were merely unproven allegations and that Lanni, who has several convictions for illegal gambling, and one for stock fraud, has no allegations of violence in the past, and should be released without bail.
Judge Daniels agreed. Lanni, who told the judge that while he lives in Staten Island with his wife of 31 years, he purchased a home in Toms River four year ago, was ordered to stay away from the Roxy Bar and Grille restaurant and its owners when he's in Toms River and to return to court for a status conference in the case next month.
Lanni is a longtime ally of the family's late underboss, Francesco (Frank) Cali, who was killed by a mentally troubled Staten Islander in 2019. In December, Lanni's appearance with Mannino at the wake of Luchese wiseguy Frank (Big Frank) Lastorino, a former antagonist who had killed a John Gotti pal for his leaders, indicated that Lanni is close to the current Gambino family leaders.
Allegations that Lanni terrorized the husband and wife owners of an eatery in the same town where he now has a home can't be seen as a positive event by Mannino or Cefalu, who are each viewed by their mob peers, as well as by most mob busters that Gang Land speaks to, as low-key, respectful wiseguys.
Sources also tell Gang Land that Lanni, who took over Frank Cali's rackets and who has benefitted financially from the senseless killing of the family underboss, recently told Cali's widow to sell her home on Todt Hill when she told him that she was having a difficult time making ends meet while raising her three children.
"I'm not surprised," said one law enforcement source who stated he hadn't heard that. "More often than not," he said, "that's the way the cookie crumbles for family members of mobsters who get convicted and receive long prison sentences that they deserve, or when they die. We heard a lot more stories about that years ago, when they were killing each other left and right."
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
Chazzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
In regards to his name I believe Knapik was his stepfathers name, I think the story goes Jackie D’Amico made him change it before they would straighten him out. Merola being his biological fathers name or mothers maiden I can’t recall.
Chazzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
Chazzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
Chazzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:26 pm
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question, but it’s about Andy Merola. Does anyone know his story? I grew up in the same town and he had a different last name until way after high school when I first learned he was a made guy. He’s also part of the Gambino family in a town that’s filled with Luchesse guys. Anyone?
In regards to his name I believe Knapik was his stepfathers name, I think the story goes Jackie D’Amico made him change it before they would straighten him out. Merola being his biological fathers name or mothers maiden I can’t recall.
The Knapik surname doesn’t come from a stepfather and Merola wasn’t his mother’s maiden name.
Andy Merola spent most of his life as Andrew Knapik Jr. He was born in 1967 and his parents were Andrew Charles Knapik Sr and Rosemarie Ann Luzzi. Andrew Sr was born in 1934 in rural SW PA near the WV border to Slovakian parents. In the late 50s, he moved to North Jersey and was attending Newark Engineering College in 1960 when he married Rosemarie. She was born in 1938 in Essex County to Angelo Luzzi, of San Demetrio Corone, Cosenza, Calabria, and Rosa Lavelli of Troina, in what is today the province of Enna, Sicilia. Rosemarie grew up in Verona and Caldwell and went on to become a teacher’s aide and then an executive secretary at Nabisco, while Andrew Sr was an engineer at Bel Fuse in JC. Both also were highly active in St Rose of Lima Parish in East Hanover and the Knights of Columbus/Columbiettes. Totally belies the low class vibes that Merola had always given me from his past cases and appearances in the papers.
Now, I’ve heard before that Merola was adopted and that Merola was his birth father or birth mother’s name. It could well be the case that he was in fact adopted, as his parents seem to have been rather devout Catholics and he looks, IMO, nothing like either his mother or older sister. It could also be that he made this up to qualify for membership. I have no idea myself. No one in his family tree, at least for the people who were his parents legally, had the surname Merola.
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Thank you. My family went to school with him, attended church where his family went to church. If you knew him in high school, you might not be surprised by the violence, but the whole mafia thing…he was and hung with “burnouts” in high school.
One of the replies brought up a separate question…if a guy is an associate only, not a made guy…he has no sons nor does his brother…yet they have involved the rest of the family. Can an Italian born son in law continue sort of in the role once the older generation is dead? I appreciate any help.
