BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they seized dozens of firearms and $15,000 in cash from the southwestern Idaho home of a man wanted for years for trying to kill a New England mob boss.
Enrico M. Ponzo, 42, appeared in federal court in Boise Wednesday, two days after he was arrested on charges from a 1997 indictment accusing him and 14 others of racketeering, attempted murder and conspiracy to kill rivals.
Ponzo had been living in Marsing, west of Boise, under the assumed name Jeffrey Shaw. During his arrest Monday, FBI agents said they seized 38 firearms, cash and a 100-ounce bar of either gold or silver.
Federal prosecutors have charged Ponzo in the 1989 attempted murder of Frank Salemme, the former head of the Patriarca Family of La Cosa Nostra.
