Photos: Mafia crime boss Joe Bonanno Sr. in Tucson
The reputed Mafia boss and leader of one of the "Five Families" that governed La Cosa Nostra had strong ties to Tucson. His family purchased property here in the 1940s. His children went to school at Sts. Peter and Paul. He owned a home in the Catalina Vista neighborhood near what is now Banner-University Medical Center.
Bonanno died in 2002.
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In this July 13, 1984 photo, Joseph Bonanno, Sr., a reputed mafia figure, walks through Tucson International Airport in Arizona, flanked by daughter-in-law Rosalie Bonanno, left, son Joseph Jr., second from right, and son Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno, far right, after his parole from a federal prison in Lexington, Ky.
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Joe Bonanno, center in 1986.
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Joe Bonanno, date unknown.
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Joe Bonanno arrives at Tucson International Airport in 1966 to spend Christmas with his family.
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Tucson Police investigate a bombing at the home of Joe Bonanno in Tucson in 1968. Two sticks of dynamite were thrown into the yard. Nobody was injured.
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Joe Bonanno, Sr., right, with his attorneys in 1970.
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Peter Notaro, left, believed to be a bodyguard, moves to help Joe Bonanno as the Mafia leader arrives in Tucson in 1968 to visit his home in Catalina Vista.
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Joe Bonanno, right, arrested by FBI agents in 1958 as a material witness in a Brooklyn grand jury case, talks with his attorney Raymond Hayes after his was released on bond in Tucson.
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Tucson Police investigate a bombing at the home of Joe Bonanno in Tucson in 1968. Two sticks of dynamite were thrown into the yard. Nobody was injured.
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Joe Bonanno is escorted to his arraignment in the Post Office Building in Tucson by a city police detective in 1959.
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Joe Bonanno, Sr, at the federal courthouse in Tucson in 1979.
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Joe Bonnano, Sr in 1979.
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Joe Bonanno is escorted to federal prison in a wheelchair by a U.S. Marshal in Tucson in 1985 after refusing to answer questions at a deposition.
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Joe Bonanno, Sr., age 75, watches as pallbearers enter St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Tucson in 1980 with a casket bearing the body of his wife, Fay, who died at age 75.
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Joe Bonanno and son Bill, right, arrive for the 1999 premiere of a Showtime series on the elder Bonanno's life.
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Joseph Gregory, right, grandson of the late Joseph Bonanno Sr., embraces a family member at his grandfather's funeral Monday, May 20, 2002 at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Tucson, Ariz. Joseph Bonanno Sr., the notorious gangster known as "Joe Bananas" who ran one of the most powerful Mafia groups in the 1950s and 60s, was 97 years old. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool)
Rick Wiley
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