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Arrest record for Al Capone dated May 4, 1932: a Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation identification form with profile and front photographs, a placard numbered 40886, a handwritten description, and a criminal history table.
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Al Capone arrest record dated 4 May 1932 (FBI)

Arrest record published by the FBI as "Al Capone Arrest Record, 1932" and captioned as dated May 4, 1932, the day the Alcatraz warden's notebook gives as the start of his tax sentence.

Date
1932-05-04
Kind
photograph
Source
Federal Bureau of Investigation, image repository
Retrieved
2026-10-11
Rights
Published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on fbi.gov with no third-party credit; a United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The FBI serves it at the cited URL; a copy downloaded from it on 12 October 2026 is stored here.

The FBI image repository titles this entry “Al Capone Arrest Record, 1932” and captions it “Arrest record for Al Capone dated May 4. 1932.” (punctuation as printed). It illustrates the FBI history page Al Capone. The repository lists the file at 3,997 KB.

May 4, 1932 is also the “Sentence began” date typed on Capone’s Alcatraz warden’s notebook page (NAID 236736566). The FBI caption does not say where the record was made or what the entries on it are, and this page does not describe the image beyond the caption.

The copy shown here was downloaded from the FBI image repository on 12 October 2026 (the repository’s 1400 pixel rendition of the 3,997 KB original).

itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Alphonse Capone, No. 85Bureau of Prisons form with Capone's Alcatraz identification photograph, holding a card numbered 85. It records his receipt from Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1934, his tax sentence, parole denied in 1935, and his transfer to Terminal Island in January 1939.itemAl Capone's fingerprint card (FBI)Fingerprint card published by the FBI as "Al Capone's Fingerprint Card." The FBI gives no date for the card.itemAl Capone mug shot captioned 16 May 1929 (FBI)Police identification photograph of Al Capone in a fedora with a numbered placard, published by the FBI and captioned "Mug shot of Al Capone on May 16, 1929." The date conflicts with other federal captions.itemAl Capone (FBI history page)The FBI's history essay on Capone. It states that he was released on November 16, 1939, and that he lived on Palm Island until his death due to a stroke and pneumonia on January 25, 1947.itemFBI Vault file on Alphonse CaponeThe FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Alphonse Gabriel Capone, in 36 parts, with the Bureau's own summary of the investigation.itemMandate of the Circuit Court of Appeals (3 May 1932)Mandate of the Seventh Circuit returning the Capone tax case, Nos. 22852 and 23232, to the District Court at Chicago after the appeal was decided.