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Today in RI history: Mob boss transferred to another prison

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By Thomas J. Morgan

A year ago today:
For the fourth time in three weeks, Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, 85, the last New England mob boss from Rhode Island, has been transferred to another federal prison - this time one in Butner, N.C., about 25 miles from Raleigh.

5 years ago today:
An 18-month-old Exeter boy dies after he falls into a fish pond in the backyard of a North Kingstown home.

25 years ago today:
The U.S. Coast Guard and officials from Portsmouth and Tiverton spend part of the night searching the Sakonnet River for someone who had been spotted jumping from the Sakonnet River Bridge - only to learn that the jumper is a fledgling stuntman.


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