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Pittsburgh crime family
Italian-American Mafia crime family
Criminal organization
| Founded | c.
1888; 137 years ago (1888) |
|---|---|
| Founder | Salvatore "Banana King" Catanzaro |
| Named after | Sebastian "Big John" LaRocca |
| Founding location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Years active | c. 1888–2021 |
| Territory | Primarily Greater Pittsburgh (especially New Kensington, Arnold and Bloomfield), with additional territory throughout Western Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio and the northern panhandle of West Virginia[1] |
| Ethnicity | Italians as "made men" and other ethnicities as associates |
| Activities | Racketeering, drug trafficking, murder, loansharking, extortion, gambling and prostitution |
| Allies | |
| Rivals | Various gangs in the Pittsburgh area |
The Pittsburgh crime family,[4] also known as the LaRocca crime family[5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-AmericanMafiacrime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsy