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Born in Newark, New Jersey, Sica was first arrested in 1926 at age 15. Sica first became associated with organized crime in New Jersey and was part of a crew run by Lucchese crime family capo Settimo Accardi along with legendary mobsters Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis and Abner "Longy" Zwillman. Sica later moved to the west coast where in 1950 he was indicted with 15 other mobsters for conspiracy to distribute narcotics in California. However, the case was dismissed after Abraham Davidian, the prosecution's star witness, was shot to death while sleeping at his mother's home in Fresno, California.

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  • Joseph "JS" Sica
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  • Born in Newark, New Jersey, Sica was first arrested in 1926 at age 15. Sica first became associated with organized crime in New Jersey and was part of a crew run by Lucchese crime family capo Settimo Accardi along with legendary mobsters Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis and Abner "Longy" Zwillman. Sica later moved to the west coast where in 1950 he was indicted with 15 other mobsters for conspiracy to distribute narcotics in California. However, the case was dismissed after Abraham Davidian, the prosecution's star witness, was shot to death while sleeping at his mother's home in Fresno, California.
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  • Born in Newark, New Jersey, Sica was first arrested in 1926 at age 15. Sica first became associated with organized crime in New Jersey and was part of a crew run by Lucchese crime family capo Settimo Accardi along with legendary mobsters Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis and Abner "Longy" Zwillman. Sica later moved to the west coast where in 1950 he was indicted with 15 other mobsters for conspiracy to distribute narcotics in California. However, the case was dismissed after Abraham Davidian, the prosecution's star witness, was shot to death while sleeping at his mother's home in Fresno, California. During the 1950s, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations identified Sica as a prominent member of the Los Angeles crime family and an associate of mobsters Mickey Cohen, Salvatore Iannone, and Thomas DeMaio. Sica was a constant companion of L.A. mob boss Mickey Cohen and was always there when trouble broke out. He was one of the first organized crime figures to be banned from Las Vegas casinos when he was listed in the first "Black Book" in 1960. Sica once refused an order by L.A. Boss Jack Dragna to kill friend Mickey Cohen. Defying Dragna made Sica a well-respected man amongst Cohen and his bookmakers, but it alienated the L.A. family against him. Cohen's bookies sided with Sica and in an attempt to avoid another gambling war, Sica gave up a piece of his lucrative bookmaking business to Dragna. Sica worked in Los Angeles so long that he eventually became a close associate of the L.A. family.
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