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The Tanglewood Boys is an Italian-American gang from Yonkers, New York. They are named after the seedy shopping mall that they frequent, located in the Crestwood section of Yonkers. They have been around since the 1970s, as a "starter gang" or recruitment for the Italian Mafia, specifically the Lucchese Crime Family. Several members have gone on to other crime families as well, and they are usually the sons of mafioso. Famous members include Salvatore LoCascio of Eastchester and Pasquale Perello, Jr..
The Boys made the news in the late '90s, when their ranks were arrested for the murder of a college student at a Yonkers sports bar in 1994, and the subsequent cover-up by one of their mob fathers; one member, Darin Mazzarella, went informant and revealed other crimes as well, prompting an autobiographical news article in New York Magazine that was seen around the nation. Although still existent, their days of prominence are relatively over.
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