Man wanted in fatal stabbing in Staten Island is arrested
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
January 19, 2016


Police have captured a suspect in a fatal Staten Island stabbing, pulling him out of his car in front of a Manhattan pizzeria, police sources said.

Richard Gambale, 41, was wanted for the Thursday slaying of Anthony Perretti, 43, in a Staten Island industrial park.

Perretti, who back in 1995 fatally stabbed a bouncer in an upstate nightclub, was arguing with Gambale about money owed when the dispute got physical on Industrial Loop East in Rossville, sources said.

Gambale, a Great Kills man who police sources said has ties to organized crime, owns Lollipop Couture, a children’s fashion store in Tottenville. He also worked as a dump truck driver at a contracting firm in the industrial park, sources said.

The bloodshed broke out after Perretti got a hold of a metal fence post and hit Gambale in the chest, sources said. Gambale then pulled out a knife and repeatedly stabbed Perretti, the sources said.

He then told one of his co-workers to call 911, and drove off in his Black Mercedes, sources said.

Cops found Perretti’s three-year-old son in his car at the scene, apparently uninjured, sources said.
They tracked down Gambale Monday afternoon, in a car on 14th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.

Ricardo Nocelotl, a manager at The Slice pizzeria, saw detectives in unmarked cars take Gambale down. “He was stopped at a red light. The cops had cornered him from the front and the rear,” Nocelotl said. “They pulled him out of the driver’s seat.”

Cops then forced him to the ground and cuffed his hands and feet, while a woman sitting in the back seat of Gambale’s white four-door watched, NocelOtl said. “Wow, man, it was crazy,” Nocelotl said.

Members of the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force made the collar, sources said. Gambale’s been charged with murder and weapon possession.

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