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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