![]() ![]() By mid-April 1980, Roy's trust in Vito had grown to the point that he dispatched Vito on a mission to locate and murder Patrick Penny. ![]() Vito even dressed as Santa Claus and gave presents to all of the crew member's children at Roy's house during Christmas of 1979. Vito and Henry Borelli were assigned to dispose of Ronald Falcaro's car, during which Vito claims that Henry divulged a number of details concerning some of the crew's past murders, including Andrei Katz and former DeMeo crew member Chris Rosenberg.īy 1980, Roy increased Vito's weekly salary for his work stealing cars for the Kuwait operation and also began inviting Vito to social gatherings with other members of the DeMeo crew. Vito was present at the scene of the double murder, stationed outside of the garage where the murders took place in order to both serve as a lookout as well as to ensure the two intended victims did not escape out of the garage once the shooting started.Īfter the two targets were killed, Roy DeMeo and other crew members dismembered the corpses and placed the body parts into plastic garbage bags which were boxed and later hauled to the Fountain Avenue Dump in Brooklyn. On October 12, the DeMeo crew lured Daoud, along with another legitimate car dealer by the name of Ronald Falcaro, to a Canarsie bodyshop and shot them both dead. On October 10, Roy was informed by a police officer on his payroll that Khaled Daoud had placed a call to police and divulged information of the crew's activities. Vito Arena accompanied Roy along with DeMeo Crew members (as well as active partners in the Kuwait operation) Henry Borelli and Frederick DiNome on an initial attempt at murdering Daoud but as a result of poor planning the murder plot was temporarily aborted. After Roy DeMeo learned of the situation, he set in motion plans to murder Daoud before he could follow through on his threat. This man, Khaled Daoud, was attempting to make a legitimate living in the business of used cars and felt his partner's illegal dealings with organized crime was hurting his own business. In September 1979, a former partner of the man serving as the head of the Kuwait end of the operation threatened to contact police. Vito assisted one of these partners, Richard DiNome, with the actual stealing of the automobiles. After this murder Roy met with Vito, who accepted Roy's offer to work for him.īy June 1979 the operation was underway, with Roy appointing 4 others to serve along with him as the scheme's primary active partners. ![]() Scorney's body was then put into a concrete filled barrel and dumped off of a pier. Scorney's reluctance, among other reasons, resulted in him being murdered by Vito and DeMeo crew member Richard DiNome. ![]() Joseph Scorney, a successful car thief with no organized crime ties, refused the offer and attempted to talk Vito out of the proposition. Roy offered Vito, along with two of Vito's associates Joseph Lee and Joseph Scorney a job stealing cars for the operation. At the time, DeMeo was in the preliminary phases of putting together an international auto-theft operation, where stolen vehicles were sold to a third-party in Kuwait for tremendous profits. Originally a car thief and armed robber with no ties to La Cosa Nostra, Vito Arena became affiliated with Roy DeMeo after being released from prison in the late 1970s. Vito would eventually become a cooperator against the crew, testifying against them in two separate trials and contributing in large part to the convictions of the key members. He was born to first generation immigrants from Arena, in the region of Calabria in the province of Vibo Valentia. For a short time, he was a member of the DeMeo crew, a notorious group of car thieves, drug dealers and murderers led by Gambino soldier Roy DeMeo that were responsible for between 75-200 killings in the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Vito Arena (1930–1991) was an associate of the Gambino crime family, one of the five Italian Mafia families located in New York. ![]()
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