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PROVIDENCE -- On a cold January day in 2005, the mob was flexing its muscle on the city's waterfront.
In what seemed to be a throwback to times past, David Achille, son of a capo regime in the Patriarca crime family, was heading to a construction site in India Point Park to settle a beef over union job assignments.
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From The Journal archives . . .
12.05.06: Richard 'Red Bird' Gomes' life comes to quiet end
4.14.06: Anthony 'The Saint' St. Laurent charged with extortion
3.19.06: Bobby DeLuca and Artie Coloian, in the kitchen
4.24.05: Working with the mob, the union -- and the FBI
4.24.2005: The raid that netted mob capo Matty Guglielmetti
12.22.99: Anthony M. 'The Saint'
St. Laurent
charged with running sports-betting ring from jail
9.01.99: St. Laurent, Lato get 70 months in prison
12.12.98: 'Junior' Patriarca released from prison
6.19.97: Angelo J. 'Sonny' Mercurio says he informed for FBI
1.11.97: R.I. pornographer Kenneth Guarino pleads guilty
2.2.96: Gerard Ouimette sentenced to life without parole
12.2.95: Judge rejects increase to Patriarca Jr.'s sentence
10.27.95: Ouimette, DeLuca are convicted of extortion
9.28.95: Government seeks to keep Patriarca Jr. in prison
7.10.94: Stolen list of safes a map to high life and tragedy
7.15.84: Timeline: Patriarca had history of run-ins with the law
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