Son, grandson of Colombo family mob boss collared in Staten Island ghost gun bust

The lad and grandson of a Colombo transgression household capo were busted Wednesday aft an NYPD associated task uncovered a staggering cache of weapons and amerciable firearm-making equipment, including shade guns.

Members of the NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force executed a warrant astatine the location of 57-year-old Joseph Orapallo and his son, Frank Orapallo, 22, astatine their location connected Locust Ave. adjacent Edison St. successful New Dorp astir 6 a.m. aft an probe led the part to judge the men had shade guns, constabulary sources said.

An NYPD associated task unit uncovered a cache of weapons and amerciable firearm-making equipment.(NYPD)

The alleged father-and-son transgression duo are descendants of Joseph T. Tomasello, a notorious organized transgression brag arrested successful 1998. Joseph Orapallo, opting to region himself from his precocious father, uses his mother’s maiden name.

The NYPD and national agents raided the location the Orapallos stock with Joseph Orapallo’s wife, arsenic good arsenic Frank Orapallo’s babe and the parent of his child.

During the raid, authorities seized 5 shade guns and 3D printing instrumentality utilized to assemble them. Police besides recovered a stash of handguns, silencers, 14 unregistered rifles and hunting guns, arsenic good arsenic ample amounts of ammunition and clips, according to constabulary sources.

The cache of weapons and amerciable firearm-making instrumentality including shade guns. (NYPD)

Both Orapallos present look aggregate national weapons charges, including possession of shade guns. It is inactive being investigated if the men are progressive successful organized crime, constabulary sources said.

Tomasello’s seizure successful the 90s came aft his son, Joseph Orapallo, and his sister-in-law unknowingly led FBI agents to his hideout successful the Catskills the nighttime of Orapallo’s wedding, the Daily News reported astatine the time.

For six years, Tomasello, a thoroughfare brag with the Colombo transgression family, had dodged national agents aft a notorious mob warfare successful 1991 and 1992 that near 10 radical dead. Tomasello was accused of participating successful 5 of those slayings.

But successful 1998, national agents staked retired Joseph Orapallo’s Staten Island wedding, wherever they followed his aunt to Tomasello’s hideaway successful Catskill, N.Y., astir 25 miles southbound of Albany, The News antecedently reported.

After days of surveillance, agents spotted Orapallo and his caller woman thrust up to the location with Tomasello; the then-66-year-old antheral was taken into custody and was deed with racketeering and execution charges.

Tomasello was successful national situation until 2005, records show. He died successful 2016.