Dominic Taddeo, a hit man from a Rochester-area crime family who had escaped federal custody in Florida on March 28, was rearrested on Monday in Hialeah. Taddeo, 64, pleaded guilty in 1992 to racketeering charges that included the killings of three other mobsters.
Dominic Taddeo, a hit man from a Rochester-area crime family who had escaped on March 28, was taken into custody Monday morningA New York mobster who escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, was captured in South Florida Monday morning.
Dominic Taddeo, a hit man from a Rochester-area crime family who had escaped on March 28, was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service from the Southern District of Florida and the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force in Hialeah, officials said. Taddeo, 64, had been imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being transferred to a residential halfway house near Orlando in February.
Taddeo failed to return from an authorized medical appointment and"was placed on escape status" last Monday, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said.