Former Colombo street boss Ralph DeLeo planned to serve his revenge cold. The elderly mobster was arrested in Boston for plotting to murder three people who put him behind bars in 2012. The trio were involved in DeLeo’s conviction. DeLeo was a longtime associate of the Patriarca crime family, operating out of Providence, R.I., and controlling most of the criminal rackets in New England. On December 17, 2009, the FBI charged DeLeo and Colombo family members with drug trafficking, extortion and loansharking. The mobster was sentenced to 16 years in a federal prison.
Ralph F. DeLeo, 82, was sprung under supervised release in 2024. DeLeo bitterly resented the people who sent him to prison. He told a jailhouse snitch in 2014 that he was going to “chop off” one of the feds’ heads.
