Who Managed the Ravenite?
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there, back here in studio, Gangland Wire, Gary Jenkins, retired Ken City Police, Intelligence, and Detective, and now a podcaster and former filmmaker and author. |
| 0:11.2 | I mean, I've just done it all here in my retirement. I'm just kidding, you know, I don't take myself that seriously. |
| 0:16.5 | I want to tell you a kind of a short story today about the manager of the Ravenite Social Club, Norman DuPont. |
| 0:24.1 | I recently was looking at some video and I snagged some video to put up YouTube shorts of people going in and out of the Ravenite. |
| 0:32.4 | And so I didn't hear this one guy was. |
| 0:34.7 | So I threw it out, you know, to the fans on YouTube. |
| 0:37.7 | And they said, oh, that's Norman DuPont. |
| 0:40.3 | And what you could tell, he was like the guy running errands. |
| 0:43.7 | He was running in and out, opening the door, going next door and getting supplies and |
| 0:49.4 | bringing them back to a little corner store there and bringing them back to the club. |
| 0:56.5 | So Norman DuPont, you know, and I know and i started i thought well who is this guy started researching him you can't find out a whole lot about him |
| 1:01.5 | it's kind of an interesting story later in his life you know one of the one of the first things i found |
| 1:06.2 | out about him was it was it was kind of crazy in 1990 it's not too long before he committed the crime that |
| 1:16.6 | sent him away for a long time he was working at the feast of san janaro and down in little italy |
| 1:24.9 | and mulberry and Spring Street. |
| 1:33.2 | And there was a child of an off-duty New York City police officer and Anthony Penzone, and she complained that a concession game was not working properly. |
| 1:39.7 | And a couple of off-duty cops went over to the booth and started making a complaint and the booth |
| 1:46.3 | attendant called out all of a sudden some other guys showed up and some other off-duty cops |
| 1:51.1 | were in the area showed up and they have a big brawl and and the cops ended up getting the |
| 1:58.0 | worst end of it these guys beat them with like sticks and iron bars or |
| 2:03.6 | something and they all get, they got, went to the hospital or treated and released. One of them |
| 2:08.9 | was kept for a while. He had a fractured skull. So one of the persons arrested was the |
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