Record
Case file
1956-04-03
FBI Records: The Vault, Thomas Lucchese Part 01 (viewer pages 37–38, 44 and 76)
FBI identification record of Thomas Lucchese, furnished April 3, 1956: a New York homicide arrest of September 1930, dismissed February 26, 1931
An FBI New York report (file NY 92-305) in the Lucchese file reproduces the Identification Division's record of April 3, 1956. Among its entries is a New York police arrest of "Thomas Luckese" in September 1930 on a homicide charge, disposition "dismissed," February 26, 1931. Read from the viewer's OCR.
- Date
- 1956-04-03
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. No page image is stored here; the Vault's image service refused the request during research, and the scans are at the Vault URL.
Viewer pages 37 and 38 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault’s Thomas Lucchese file are pages of a New York report (file NY 92-305) that introduce “the Identification Record of LUCHESE as furnished by the Identification Division on April 3, 1956.” Viewer page 44 is the record sheet itself, and viewer page 76, a later report page, restates its entries in prose. The part as a whole is filed as Thomas Lucchese, Part 01. These pages were read from the viewer’s OCR text; the page images could not be fetched.
The record lists, among other entries, an arrest by the New York Police Department of “Thomas Luckese” in September 1930 on a charge of homicide, with the disposition “dismissed” and the date February 26, 1931. The OCR does not give a legible day for the September arrest (one copy reads “?,1930,” the other “September! … 30”), and this archive does not supply one. The same table lists a homicide (gun) arrest in 1929, discharged, a Cleveland arrest of July 4, 1931 for “investigation,” a 1932 New York “inquiry” under the name Thomas Arra, and a 1940 alien registration as Gaetano Lucchese. The sheet carries the FBI’s printed caution that some notations “ARE NOT BASED ON FINGERPRINTS IN FBI files” and are “LISTED ONLY AS INVESTIGATIVE LEADS.”
The record does not name Joseph Pinzolo. The connection comes from the 1963 hearing, where Sergeant Ralph Salerno read the police record that Lucchese was the lessee of the Brokaw Building office where Pinzolo was found dead on September 9, 1930, that he was arraigned in homicide court two days later, and that the grand jury did not indict (pp. 174–179). An arrest is not a conviction, and a dismissed charge is not a finding of any kind.
