Vigilantes root out rooftop camps on Garnet “We’re currently looking for other locations – successfully – by drone. We discovered more stashed items on top of the vacant Radio Shack, another location received reports of …
FBI surveillance photo of Jimmy Fratianno (left) and Frank Bompensiero
Posted February 10, 2018
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