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« CVS trial: Sports fan Celona pitched himself to Jets | Today | House scuttles vote on political pamphlet anonymity » May 21, 2008Mobster Marrapese takes first steps out of ACI / Photo
Marrapese was fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet before being released from the Adult Correctional Institutions this afternoon. The terms of Marrapese’s parole prohibit him from associating with known felons without the consent of his parole officer. He also will be required to wear the electronic bracelet for at least a year, and he will remain on parole for the rest of his life. He will move back to his home at 104 Elwyn St., in Cranston, not far from the Silver Lake neighborhood in Providence. Last month, The Providence Journal reported that he had landed a job at a Anthony’s Restaurant in Johnston. The consequential news coverage resulted in the restaurant withdrawing its offer, and Marrapese’s release was postponed until he could find another job. In the ’60s and ’70s, Marrapese was a feared enforcer and capo regime in the Patriarca crime family. He operated from the Acorn Social Club midway up Atwells Avenue in the heart of Federal Hill. The club was recently razed and a restaurant is being built in its place. In September 1987, Marrapese was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for killing mob associate Richard "Dickie" Callei on March 15, 1975, in the Acorn Social Club. His bullet-ridden body was discovered later that day near a golf course in Rehoboth. The murder remained unsolved for nearly a decade. Meanwhile, in the 1980s, Marrapese was charged in two other murders: the 1982 gangland slaying of Anthony "The Moron" Mirabella at Fidas Restaurant on Valley Street and the baseball-bat beating of Ronald McElroy, of East Providence. Separate juries found Marrapese not guilty in the Mirabella and McElroy killings. -- With archival reports from Journal staff writer W. Zachary Malinowski Posted by Andrea Panciera Commentsseth | May 21, 2008 8:22 PM link I think that the media should have never should have told anyone where he was going to be working. He is a human just like the rest of us and made a mistake and i 'm sure he has alot of time on his hands to think of what he did. Leave him alone and let him be free! Again due to media he couldn't get out of prision when he was supposed to. and that pisses me off why should the community no where someone else lives and works. Again they even were stoopid enough to put is living address in the paper and the news. So my question is why is it anyone's buissness where they work or live LEAVE THE HELL ALONE. LET HIM LIVE NOW. Melinda Machado | May 22, 2008 6:45 AM link Everyone deserves a second chance. I hear Charlie Manson will be getting out soon, too. Sandy | May 22, 2008 7:01 AM link Oh, mobster life is not easy. It's a full-time job actually with the whacking and the thinking up names like "Bobo" and "The Moron". Paul | May 22, 2008 8:01 AM link Honestly I think that it was the wrong thing for the papers to release information about his where abouts such as where he would be working and his home address people change and I do believe he should be left alone a be given his second chance without people knowing his every move.Let him live He already did 25 years. LEAVE HIM ALONE AND LET HIM LIVE HIS LIFE NOW!!!(just like everyone else living theres) Maria Bonet | May 22, 2008 9:42 AM link Maria and Melinda, Hickok | May 22, 2008 12:01 PM link seth, Melinda Machado, and Maria Bonet, instead of having murdered three people, instead he had molsted one kid, would you sickos feel that it would be wrong to report where he would be working, and his address, after all "PEOPLE CHANGE"? george | May 22, 2008 5:37 PM link I'm not sure I'm comfortable with his release. Message is Life in Prison is really not life after all. No matter how well he behaved inside cannot discount the lives that were aborted at his hands. The message being sent by his release is absolutely WRONG. He may be a "great" guy and all; however, murder is murder and life is life. Donna | May 23, 2008 2:39 AM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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25 years in prison....let the man live what's left of his life in peace.