NJ Luchese Capo's Son Nailed with Marijuana
Carlo Taccetta's father supposedly served as the model for David Chase's Tony Soprano. New Jersey troopers found 65 pounds of marijuana in a pickup truck on Saturday driven by Carlo Taccetta, a suspected soldier in the Luchese crime family and son of reputed Luchese capo Michael Taccetta, also known as "Mad Dog," a high-ranking member who controlled the family's New Jersey faction in the 1980s-90s and was one of the 20 defendants in the notorious trial considered to be the longest in U.S. history. Carlo Taccetta, 41, of the Whippany section of Hanover, was stopped on West Bloomfield Avenue in Montville as part of an ongoing investigation Saturday, State Police said. Troopers found the marijuana after Taccetta gave them permission to search his Dodge Ram pickup truck.