Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang by Paul R. Kavieff

Author:Paul R. Kavieff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

James “Jimmy” Carson was the brains behind the Carson-Kozak mob. A former Great Lakes sailor, Carson drifted into crime in the mid-1920s. Carson and another member of the gang once went on a one-day crime rampage in Detroit in which they killed a police officer, shot a Hamtramck detective, robbed a bank, and totaled a stolen car. (Courtesy of the State of Michigan Archives.)

Joseph “Legs” Laman, standing between two court officers, and his mob specialized in kidnapping Detroit area wiseguys, mostly wealthy gamblers. The gang was destroyed in 1929 by a task force of state and Detroit police. Many kidnappings attributed to the Purple Gang were actually done by the Laman mob. Laman later became a state witness and exposed his former partners in return for the reduction of a long prison sentence. (Courtesy of the Walter Reuther Library.)

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