Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Lawyers for Winter and his codefendant said the prosecution's statement of facts and allegations is "one-sided," according to Bostonherald.com.
On Tuesday, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman impounded, at least temporarily, the prosecution's statement of facts and allegations against former Winter Hill Gang boss Howard "Howie" Winter, according to Bostonherald.com. Winter, 83, of Millbury, and a codefendant, James Melvin, 70, of Braintree, are accused of trying to extort $35,000 each from two businessmen, and they were arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court Tuesday morning. The Middlesex District Attorney's statement of facts and allegations includes the names of the two businessmen, electronic surveillance evidence—state police collected video and audio recordings of Winter and Melvin allegedly taking money from the two businessmen—and other details of the case against …
Monday, December 3, 2012
Howie Winter is accused of demanding money from businessmen who made a loan without consent from the North End.
Howie Winter, former boss of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, was scheduled to be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court Tuesday morning on extortion charges, according to an announcement from the Middlesex District Attorney's office. Winter, 83, of Millbury, will be arraigned with James Melvin, 70, of Braintree, the announcement says. According to the district attorney's office, Winter and Melvin allegedly tried to extort tens of thousands of dollars from two businessmen, making threatening statements and phone calls and leaving a threatening note at one victim's home. The extortion allegedly took place earlier in 2012. It started when two businessmen made a loan to a lawyer, according to the district attorney's office and police reports. …
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Howie Winter and James Melvin allegedly tried to extort $35,000 from businessmen who made a loan to an attorney.
Howie Winter, former boss of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, was indicted Thursday on charges of extorting money from two men, according to an announcement from the Middlesex District Attorney's office. Winter, 83, from Millbury, and James Melvin, 70, of Braintree, were indicted by a Middlesex Grand Jury on charges of attempted extortion and conspiracy, according to the announcement. According to allegations against them, Winter and Millbury intervened when two businessmen made a series of loans to an attorney who then had trouble repaying the loans, the announcement says. Winter and Melvin allegedly met with one of the businessmen at the Sons of Italy in Medford, on Broadway, just across the street from Somerville's Trum Field and near …
Friday, June 8, 2012
Howie Winter was arraigned Somerville District Court Friday and held on $25,000 cash bail.
Howie Winter, the former head of the infamous Winter Hill Gang, was arraigned in Somerville District Court Friday morning on charges of extortion. He's being held on $25,000 cash bail, and he was also ordered to surrender his passport and wear a GPS tracking device. At court proceedings Friday, Stephen Gilpatric, assistant district attorney with the Middlesex District Attorney's office, outlined an alleged extortion scheme in which Winter and an associate are accused of meeting with victims in Medford and Randolph, leaving a handwritten note at a victim's home and making expletive-laden threats with references to Winter's connections to organized crime in the North End. Winter, 83, was arrested at his home in Millbury Thursday night. He …
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Winter ran the Winter Hill Gang out of Somerville before James "Whitey" Bulger took it over.
Howie Winter, 83, former head of Somerville's infamous Winter Hill Gang, has been arrested and charged with extortion, according to an announcement from the Middlesex District Attorney's office. Winter was arrested last night at his home in Millbury, the announcement says. A second man, James Melvin, 70, of Braintree, was also arrested in connection to the alleged extrotion scheme. Winter was the former boss of the notorious Winter Hill Gang in Somerville, once the most powerful crime organization in New England outside La Cosa Nostra. James "Whitey" Bulger, who reputedly followed Winter as the gang's leader, made the criminal organization infamous. The gang is named after the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, not after Winter. …
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Whitey had nothing to do with it: Winter Hill natives talk about their neighborhood and the Winter Hill Gang.
If you grew up in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville during the 1960s and 1970s, chances are you’d have fond memories of more innocent times, despite the gangland slayings that occurred every once in awhile in your neighborhood. In 1980, Sal Sperlinga, a Winter Hill Gang member, was shot dead in Magoun Square. If you ask Somerville residents, it was because he wanted to keep a drug dealer out of the neighborhood. Today, Somerville's mayor, Joseph Curtatone, 45, remembers that incident because as a young teenager he was taking guitar lessons on Washington Street when, suddenly, heavily armed law enforcement officials stormed the area to arrest Sperlinga's convicted killer, Dan Moran. But beyond that, said Curtatone, gang-related …
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Joe Beckmann
2:40 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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