MIAMI – A New York mobster who escaped federal custody after recently being transferred to a halfway house was captured in South Florida Monday morning.
Dominic Taddeo, a hitman for a Rochester-area crime family who had escaped on March 28, was apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service Southern District of Florida and the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force. in Hialeah, authorities said.
DOMINIC TADEO IS 64 YEARS OLD; PLEASED GUILTY TO KILLING THREE MEN
Taddeo, 64, had been incarcerated in a medium-security lockup in Florida before being transferred to a residential halfway house near Orlando in February.
Taddeo did not return from an authorized medical appointment and “was placed on escape status” last Monday, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.
Taddeo pleaded guilty in 1992 to racketeering charges that included the murder of three men during mafia wars in the 1980s.
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