Man sentenced for robbery of mob associate’s home

By Tim White
Published: August 27, 2014

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A Connecticut man who prosecutors say claimed he had ties to the Patriarca crime family, was sentenced Wednesday for his role in a brazen home invasion on the home of a known mob associate.

Gennaro Miele, 62, of Niantic, Conn., was sentenced in Providence federal court to 41 months for the March 2010 robbery.

Court documents show the victim was 78-year-old Nicola Melia of Stamford, Conn., who prosecutors identified as “associate of the Gambino crime family.”

Miele pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy. U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., also ordered him to serve one year supervised release.

According to court documents Miele and two other men – Napoleon Andrade of Central Falls and Stephen Conti of Swansea, Mass. – drove to Melia’s home and posed as deliverymen. Andrade “football tackled” Melia who was then bound and blindfolded, according to court documents. The trio made off with roughly $216,000 in jewerly and cash.

Investigators said the men targeted Melia because of an ongoing dispute over a loan-sharking debt.

Prosecutors said as the home invasion was coming to an end “oddly, Melia related that he asked the robbers to leave him a few dollars so he could get a Starbucks coffee and they did so.”

It took three years and an unrelated drug case by Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms to snare the men for the home invasion.

Andrade was picked up in a wiretapped conversation telling an informant: “Oh look, look, so I went with the Italians the other day, I did two home invasions, for 400 grand, right?”

“Yo the last dude I tied up a 77 year old man,” Andrade said on the wiretap. “I felt like [expletive] after.”

After their arrests, prosecutor said Miele attempted to intimidate one of his cohorts, accusing Conti of cooperating with investigators.

Conti was, and had a hidden recording device on him at the time.

“You’re not even supposed to talk to God, nobody … that’s the way you’re supposed to do it.” Miele said in the recording according to court documents. “That’s it … You understand? So we stay on the same page, that’s, that’s why, talk about rats.”

Investigators said Miele boasted he was an associate of the Patriarca crime family but that the claim appeared to be “overstated.”

One of his co-defendants said Miele was chosen for the job because of the ties he claimed to organized crime.

Federal prosecutor Gerard Sullivan from the Rhode Island U.S. Attorney’s office handled the case against Miele.

In 2011 Andrade was sentenced to 10 years for an unrelated drug trafficking case, which was enhanced by 63 months for the home invasion.

Conti has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for the home invasion and will be sentenced on September 26.

Melia – the victim of the home invasion – is currently serving five years in prison for extortion and possession of a firearm.

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Link to the original article and news footage
http://wpri.com/2014/08/27/man-sentenced-for-robbery-of-mob-associates-home/

So do the feds have these dudes pay this old guy back the 200k they stole even thou he didnt press charges against them. And the guy conti does he get a free pass for wearing the wire and get to keep his cutt of the money. P Don do you believe someone either in boston or providence gave permission to this guy gennaro to put together a team to rob this old guy?did they kick some money up to whoever is in charge. Read this old guy and his kid been around the gambinos forever wonder if there plotting there revenge. 200k is a huge score for most street dudes. Even if your cutt is 50k cash what can you do go buy a used car. Under 10k. Its weird you look guilty buying shit with big sums of cash.

I think Miele had mob ties but not enoght to be made so take to thugs and rob the old associate maybe ha think that the gambinos won't do anything.
So he alive and in prison;if he had someone below him he take a part of 200K. And nothing happened.

I know the feds took most of napoleon andrades cars, jewelry and money. He was smart enough to have a good amount of his money hidden however so he still has money for when he comes out in 3 years. The order to get the 77 year old man from stamford came from providence. Napoleon only deals with the providence faction. He has been serving muscle for them for almost a decade now. He has alot of respect and influence on the streets of providence which brought him to the attention of the patriarca family

He does look like a bouncer at a club. Big dude. That old guy was with the former gambino underboss anthony meagle or some spelling he died like a year ago guess he was real big in ct died a few months after getting out the feds. I bet there was or will be sitdowns over that stick up. Read on here the old guy in stamford brother in the camorra or whatever. He turned down a offer to be made in the gambinos.

Pmac I don't understand Nicola Melia refuse to be made in the Gambinos?

For sure there was sit-downs because the patriarcas dont joke with the gambinos. But if all the robbers are alive the patriarcas had reason of ny.

Think it was in his last indictment the feds had him on a wiretap saying he turned down the offer of membership in the family he didnt want extra headaches like a few guys are doing these days. He had a older brother who was made over in Italy and was selling drugs with the Canadian clans back in the 70tys 80tys hes probaly dead.

No sit down the Melia'son took revenge for his father.

http://m.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Alleged-mobster-s-son-sentenced-to-two-years-2394636.php

 Alleged mobster's son sentenced to two years
Jeff Morganteen, Staff Writer | December 10, 2011

 STAMFORD -- The son of a convicted loan shark was sentenced to two years in state prison Wednesday for brutally assaulting the man who masterminded a robbery at his father's house last year and also who served as the main witness in a federal extortion case against his father.

 
Philip Melia, 40, of Stony Brook Drive, Stamford, pleaded guilty this past September to a single count of second-degree assault, and in exchange Stamford prosecutors agreed to stop pursuing several drug charges against him and a separate assault case. In total, Melia was sentenced to a five-year sentence, suspended after serving two years, followed by three years on probation, according to his defense attorney, Robert Bello.

 He was taken into custody Wednesday morning after his sentencing.

"This was a spontaneous act that wasn't justifiable, but understandable," Bello said.

According to his arrest affidavit, Melia was accused of attacking a man with a metal tool, either a hammer or wrench, at a Liberty Street truck yard. At first the victim gave Stamford police officers several conflicting stories about what happened during the attack on April 14, 2010.

It took several months before the victim identified Melia as his attacker. He told police he lied because he was scared for his family's safety. This past March, the victim identified Melia through a photo line-up, which led to his arrest on March 23.

 The victim told police he suffered several serious injuries in the April 2010 assault, including two broken fingers and a head injury, according to the affidavit.

Shortly after the robbery, the victim had admitted to Philip Melia that he helped plan a home invasion robbery in March 2010, when two men posed as delivery drivers and broke into Nicola Melia's house. They tied him up and stole cash and jewelry.

Before the assault, the victim also owed Melia's father, Nicola, several hundred thousand dollars in illegal loans.

In 2009, the victim received several large cash loans from Melia to pay for business costs, trips to casinos and his illegal drug habit, federal prosecutors said in court filings. In spring 2009 the witness received nearly $144,000 in loans. Because of business problems, gambling and drug use, the victim began missing his interest payments. Years before that the witness inherited someone else's debt and paid Melia close to $300,000 in interest since 2001, prosecutors said.

Nicola Melia threatened to use his contacts with the Bonnano crime family to extort the high interest rates from the victim, federal prosecutors said.

The victim began cooperating with federal authorities in a case against Philip Melia's father about six months after the brutal assault, federal court documents show.

Nicola Melia reached a last-minute deal with federal prosecutors and pleaded guilty to extortion this past September. Melia, 79, faces several years in prison after pleading guilty to single counts of using violent threats to collect high-interest loans and possession of firearm ammunition as a convicted felon. Federal prosecutors and Melia agreed on a recommended prison sentence of five years.

I guess he doesn't want a big target on his back for the feds? And/or doesn't want to be committed to the mob for life? Maybe he's got enough money without it.

Melia amd family have ties to canada.......

Cheech was this big news in Stamford when it happened? I don't remember hearing about it

I haven't seen anyone mention anything about the other home invasion these kids did.

Around the same time, Aurelio Carmelingo in Trumbull got robbed. He is basically the Bridgeport version of Nick. Very old, with a history that movies are made of.
Basically, they robbed two old loansharks that probably weren't kicking up what they were supposed to.

Just assumed they were related.

NEWS
Police investigating violent home invasion in Trumbull

December 6, 2010 3:56 AM


TRUMBULL - Police say a homeowner and housekeeper were beaten and robbed at gunpoint by two men in Trumbull earlier today.

Officers were called to 11 Barnswallow Road around 1:30 a.m. Saturday. They say 79-year-old Aurelio Carmolingo was on his way back from a card game in Bridgeport when a pair of masked gunmen followed him into his garage.

"I couldn't do anything to get out," he said. "They tied me up."
Authorities said the men bound and gagged Carmolingo and his housekeeper with tape, then stole nearly $700 and several sentimental pieces.

Investigators said the intruders also stole Carmolingo's 2007 black Nissan Maxima, which police found abandoned in Bridgeport earlier this afternoon.

Always thought it was related

Mighty....yes.

Its a different era now, things like a sit down was more important back then, most of these guys now dont care about the mafia.

He was bouncing at clubs in providence that members of the patriarca family controlled....such as cadillac lounge etc....