Notorious NY Mob Hitman Who Escaped FL Halfway House Captured

ORLANDO, FL — A New York mobster who escaped federal custody in Florida last week is back behind bars.

The U.S. Marshals Service and the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Dominic Taddeo, 64, on Tuesday around 11 a.m.

“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo," U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida said in a news release.

According to authorities, Taddaeo failed to return to an Orlando halfway house following a previously authorized medical appointment March 28. He was then placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons.

Taddeo was transferred in February from a medium-security prison in Sumter County, Florida, to the halfway house and was scheduled to be there until his release in Feb. 2023, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

From 1990 to 1992 Taddeo was convicted of federal racketeering charges and pleaded guilty to multiple other cases involving weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption among other offenses which included the killing of three men on behalf of the La Cosa Nostra, a Rochester-area crime family.