Peter "Mr. Bread" LoCascio (born 1916) was a New York mobster, drug trafficker and brother of Carmine LoCascio.

LoCascio has an arrest record dating from 1935, that includes arrests for illegal alcohol trafficking, narcotics violations, and forgery

Forgery

Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful misrepresentations. Forging money or...

. A lieutenant under his brother Carmine, Peter LoCascio was the main supplier of heroin on New York's Prince and Elizabeth Street

Elizabeth Street

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. He was also an associate of John Ormento, Solomon Kaplan and brothers Joseph and Peter DiPalermo, prior to the Apalachin Meeting

Apalachin Meeting

The Apalachin Meeting was a historic summit of the American Mafia held on November 14, 1957, at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara in Apalachin, New York. The meeting was attended by roughly 100 Mafiosi from the United States, Canada, and Italy...

in 1957.

Further reading

• United States. Congress. House. Appropriations. Treasury Department - Post Office Appropriations for 1951. 1951. http://books.google.com/books?vid=0dPXvJwWmqzStlZgQT-dgaR&id=wTN_FPPDMPAC&q=Peter+LoCascio&dq=Peter+LoCascio&pgis=1

External links

• New York Times: Narcotics Arrests Show Sharp Rise