Angelo Bedami News Today

Angelo Bedami, a convicted drug smuggler and son of an alleged hit man, says he sold his story to a producer.

A former undercover Tampa detective believes the claim.

When Angelo Bedami returned from Sicily in 1983 to turn himself in for smuggling millions of dollars of drugs into Florida from Colombia, federal law enforcement officials’ first question was aout his father, Joe Bedami Sr., a convicted mobster and alleged hitman who went missing in 1968.

Angelo Bedami's father, Joe Bedami Sr., was a convicted mobster and alleged hit man who disappeared in 1968 after living in Tampa. For decades, it had been presumed that he ended up on the other side of a hit. But there were lingering doubts, which prompted the question: Was Joe Bedami Sr. really dead?

TAMPA, Fla. — When Angelo Bedami returned from hiding in Sicily in 1983 to turn himself in for smuggling millions of dollars of drugs into Florida from Colombia, federal law

There were two reasons for this, according to Larsen and Deitche. One was that some future criminals and law enforcement officers — both typically of Italian or Cuban descent — grew up together and their families were friends for generations in a city that still had a small town feel, Larsen said. They then remained friends even when on opposite sides of the law. “They protected their own,” Larsen said. “Guys like that didn’t go to jail, except maybe overnight.â€...