The New England Organized Crime Strike Force brought its first major case in Boston against the local mob after the FBI planted a bug inside the North End headquarters of underboss Gennaro ...

BOSTON -- A reputed East Boston mob boss with connections to a North Andover loan shark pleaded guilty to trafficking in heroin and conspiracy to traffic heroin in Salem Superior Court yesterday.

reassigning agents to other priorities as the New England Mafia — a once-dominant force in the region — has diminished to near irrelevance, The Boston Globe reports. The decision marks the end of an ...