The Winter Hill Gang are currently involved in Oxycodone & Vicodin dealing, stolen merchandise, auto theft, loansharking, extortion and illegal gambling.
What's the evidence there still is a Winter Hill Gang and that they're still into all this stuff?
When I asked somebody over on the RD this same question, they posted the stuff below. But, as I told him, if you look into these cases, they deal with crimes from the 1990's or going back even further. The murder Connolly was charged with was from the early 1980's. Basically the mopping up cases that stretched into the early 2000's.
In 2002, member of the Winter Hill Gang, John "Mick" Murray was sentenced to 9 years in prison for racketeering, conspiracy, theft of interstate shipments, extortion, embezzlement, shaking down a Southie bookmaker, stealing computer equipment from UPS trucks and attempting to defraud the union pension and welfare fund.
In 2004, associate Kevin P. O'Neil was sentenced for racketeering, extortion and money laundering.
In 2005, former FBI agent John Connolly, Jr. and connected to the Winter Hill Gang was indicted for the murder of John Callahan, a Miami gaming executive with ties to the Winter Hill Gang.
*Also, there were a lot of cases of the Winter Hill Gang in early, middle and late 1990s
This article was also posted during the discussion and I think it's probably a good example of whatever's left of the Winter Hill Gang.
Raids snare underworld suspects: Cops recover coke, cash and hand cannons
By Laurel J. Sweet
Friday, February 3, 2006 - Updated: 11:17 AM EST
A former associate of Boston crime boss Stephen Flemmi was among three suspected mobsters nabbed yesterday during a blitz of search warrant executions that began at 6 a.m. and stretched into last night.
When the dust settled, state police and investigators from Attorney General Tom Reilly's office had seized five guns, $115,000 cash from safety deposit boxes, tens of thousands of dollars more from private homes and more than a pound of cocaine with an estimated street value of $100,000.
Clearly, the underworld has not gone away, said assistant Attorney General Kurt Schwartz, chief of Reilly's criminal bureau.
Today's searches and these three arrests, Schwartz said, are the next step in what is already a six-month investigation. We have more work ahead of us. I certainly expect additional people will be arrested and the people arrested today will have additional charges brought against them.
A grand jury is being convened to advance the probe.
Arrested were: Thomas Ryan, 74, of Winthrop, in whose home police recovered $36,000 cash and a loaded .38-caliber handgun; Greg McLaughlin, 58, of Chelsea, in whose house the coke was found; and Scott McDermott, 32, of Everett, whose arsenal allegedly included a loaded .38, two .22-caliber handguns, a .45-caliber handgun and ammunition.
Ryan, who once ran with Flemmi, was indicted in 1996 and sentenced to five months in federal prison for interfering with investigations into criminal activity.
Schwartz declined to name the ring police have under their microscope, but said, We were particularly disturbed by information which has been corroborated about the use of force and extortion to collect debts and the degree to which the people in this group have access to guns.
