An Italian American gang known as the Mayfield Road Mob formed in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood about 1913. Loosely organized gangs emerged in the 1910s. After a series of Black Hand-related murders in the city in 1906, this police unit largely suppressed this first expression of organized crime in Cleveland. The Cleveland Division of Police soon established an 'Italian squad' (also known as the 'Black Hand squad') to deal with the problem. Semi-organized Sicilian American- and Italian American-run ' Black Hand' extortion rackets first emerged in Cleveland about 1900. History Early organized crime in Cleveland The organization is believed by law enforcement to be extremely small in the 21st century, although attempting to rebuild. The crime family nearly ceased to exist in the 1990s, after many high-ranking members were imprisoned. The war drew significant law enforcement attention reducing membership and influence of the Cleveland family. During the late 1970s, violent gang war erupted in the streets of Cleveland after Irish mobster Danny Greene attempted to take over the city. The organization underwent significant decline in the last years of boss John T. Stability emerged in 1930 after Frank Milano became boss. Founded about 1920, leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and assassinations. A part of the Italian-American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) phenomenon, it operates in the Greater Cleveland area. The Cleveland crime family or Cleveland Mafia is the collective name given to a succession of Italian-American organized crime gangs based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. Racketeering, murder, car bombing, drug trafficking, skimming, labor racketeering, extortion, illegal gambling, construction, garbage collection, loansharking, bookmaking, bribery, assault Italians and Sicilians as ' made men' and other ethnicities as associates

Primarily Greater Cleveland, with additional territory throughout Ohio as well as South Florida and Las Vegas Italian-American organized crime group Cleveland crime family Founded

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