Assasin Van in Nola (Mafia still active?)

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...etairie_b.html

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When they pulled over the van, deputies found a loaded .22-caliber rifle with scope wrapped in a piece of carpeting in the back, and a black metal cylinder -- a silencer -- lay in a side compartment, a May 7 arrest report says.

Wooden kitchen chairs were mounted in the cargo area, facing out sliding glass windows that had been installed behind the driver's seat and in one of the back windows. Other windows in the back of the van had been painted over. Underneath a sandbag that was holding one of the chairs in place, deputies found 8 feet of "cannon fuse."

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The New Orleans mafia has been pretty quite for years since Carlos Marcello. Many will remember him for all the JFK rumors. Some have suggested the Nola LCN is dead but with gambling as big as it is in Nola that means there is still money. This is a crazy story. That van is a killing machine.