Heres some information from my Alex article regarding Ferraros early days....

On September 24, 1933, 19 year old Alex together with Frank Ferraro, Nick Biondi and Louis Paletto were having a party in a saloon at 132 West 31st street, when suddenly one of the hoodlums got into an argument with another guest in the saloon who went by the name of Matthew Gorman. The cops came and they killed Gorman who in turn previously tried to shoot them and so in the end, Ferraro and Alex were arrested while they entered their car which was parked in front of the saloon. In their car the cops found three sawed off shotguns.

Frank Locascio was a member of Ferraros robbery crew, who later became an informant. So on October 19, 1937 Locascio was shot to death by two men who held handkerchiefs on their faces. The hit occurred in a restaurant at 3020 South Wells St and allegedly the two hitmen were Ferraro and Alex. Three days later, on October 22, 1937, Ferraro and Alex were arrested regarding the murder of Locascio and also regarding the numerous robberies.

Ferraro was released in both cases.