UPDATE, it was GYPSY Crooks posing as plumbers victimize 80-year-old woman in West Village(2003)

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I wonder, the same gang? Sounds like it could be. There are pics at the link.

Home invasion gang wanted here left trail in two states

Father sought in Peters killing; worked with sons, others

Wednesday, May 07, 2003
By Cindi Lash, Post-Gazette Staff Writer

The man charged with frightening a Washington County woman to death during a burglary is the patriarch of a family that has been implicated in a series of similar break-ins and attacks around Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Michael D. Marks, 48, who faces homicide and other charges in the death Jan. 29 of Freda Dale, 89, of Peters, is believed to be working with up to seven other men, who impersonate utility workers to enter the homes of elderly people and rob them.

Over the last few months, those men have shuttled across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where they preyed on so many elderly people that police in Philadelphia and its suburbs along with New Jersey state troopers formed a task force to stop them.

Among the men are Marks' sons, Adam Marks, 23 and Sonny Marks, 27, who, with their father, skipped bail after they were arrested in February in New Jersey.

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Freda Dale,

A garden of memories Crime victims’ families will take time to remember their loved ones in special ceremony

Minnie Warrick’s name is among those engraved on the small, smooth rocks that outline a recirculating waterfall in the Crime Victims’ Memorial Garden behind the Washington County Courthouse.

observer-reporter.com

Elderly crime victims, such as Freda Dale, 89, of Peters Township, who died Jan. 29, 2003, of a heart attack following a brutal home invasion, and Opal Bedillion, 80, of East Finley Township, who died Jan. 8, 2012, when her throat was slit after she opened her door, responding to a call for help, also are remembered in the garden.

 

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MARK M. FISHER, was reported to be White but he is Gypsy, had a criminal record.
Michael D. Marks charges were dropped, so far.

https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/J-S58018-14m.pdf

Following a jury trial in September of 2008, Appellant [Fisher] was convicted of
second-degree murder, two counts of robbery, burglary, aggravated assault,
unlawful restraint, false impersonation of a private employee, reckless
endangerment, and conspiracy.
Appellant’s convictions stem[med] from his participation in a
criminal event that occurred on January 29, 2003.

Mr. Dale was standing outside his home when he was
approached by a Caucasian male who was wearing the vest of a
utility worker and was between thirty to forty years old. Mr. Dale
allowed the man into his home after the man said that he was
employed by the gas company and needed to enter the house to
perform work. When Mr. Dale entered his house, he saw three
other men assaulting his wife. Mr. Dale and his wife were bound
with duct tape. Mr. Dale then was struck repeatedly on the head
and face, kicked in the torso, and had his finger twisted so that
he would respond to questioning about the location of his
money. The four men proceeded to ransack the Dale home.

The coroner testified that she died from a
heart attack that was caused by the attack.

DNA on cig butts, on duct tape.

Mr. Dale died on February 7, 2008. Prior to his death, he
indicated that he could identify the perpetrator who approached
him on January 29, 2003. Police showed him a photographic
array on March 19, 2003, and he chose the picture of a man
named Michael Marks as that man. Mr. Marks was initially
charged in connection with this crime, but when no other
evidence was found to link him to the incident, those charges
were withdrawn. At trial, Appellant presented an alibi defense.
His mother and sister-in-law testified that he was in Texarkana,
Arkansas, on January 29, 2003.

After Appellant was convicted of the above-stated offenses, he was
sentenced to an aggregate term of life imprisonment without the possibility
of parole.

PAGE 18, Appellant Mark Fisher was Gypsy, had a criminal record, he didn't want his ethnic or criminal background brought up by prosecutors in his trial.

Courts agreed, despite that, Fisher was sentenced to life.

Anyways, I've had dealings with TRAVELING Gypsies, thieving lying people who swarm, using kids or old ladies to distract while adults steal.

 

[Arheel's Uncle]

Michael D. Marks

MARKS is a huge GYPSY FAMILY, from Greece

Rose Marks, matriarch of the gang of thieves.

Rose Marks - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Family background​

The family was identified as relatives of the late Gypsy leader, Jimmy Marks of Spokane, Washington by the New York Daily News.[6]

According to Paula McMahon, staff writer for the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, the family are Vlax Roma, the largest Romani group in the US. McMahon states members of this group "traditionally drop out of school when they are 8 or 9 years old" and that "Mothers train daughters to develop what they call 'psychic' or 'intuitive' powers."[2] This training was presented by both prosecutors and the defense during Rose Marks' trial.[8] Schwarz said Marks began working at the age of 8 or 9.[3]

The Marks family immigrated from Greece in the late 19th or early 20th century. Although adhering to Romani cultures and beliefs, like the payment of dowries and arranged marriages, they also worked to assimilate into American life. In an interview with McMahon, Rose Marks said her father was Steve "Boyo" Eli, a land owner and Romani judge. According to Marks, he mediated land, inheritance, divorce and dowry disputes in the Gypsy community near Newark, New Jersey. Marks attended public school until she dropped out in the third grade. She was married in an arranged marriage at 16 or 17 years old, living in Virginia until moving to Broward County in 1998. Marks and her husband opened the fortune-telling storefront in Manhattan.[11]
Stack began an investigation into Rose Marks and family in 2007 before retiring from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.[3][5] A subsequent federal investigation, "Operation Crystal Ball", resulted in a sixty-one-count indictment, unsealed on August 16, 2011, charging Marks and eight family members with crimes spanning twenty years.[1][6][10]

On September 8, 2013, Marks was convicted of all fourteen federal crimes she had been charged with.[1] The charges were one count of conspiracy to commit mail/wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, two counts of mail fraud, two counts of money laundering, six counts of wire fraud and two counts of filing false income returns.[5] Schwartz said she will appeal on several grounds, including "government misconduct" by investigators who failed to record interviews with victims.[3] US magistrate judge James Hopkins had previously criticized the government's conduct but felt it did not meet criteria for dismissal of the case.[12] Mistakes initially made in presenting the case to the grand jury were serious enough to require presentation to a second grand jury.[12] In an unusual ruling, Hopkins ordered that portions of the transcript of the grand jury testimony, normally secret, be made available to the defense.[13] Among the concerns raised were the use of the term "gypsy" as an ethnic stereotype and the inclusion of victims who had not been interviewed including one who insisted he had never been victimized.[13] The indictment handed down was the fourth version.[12]

Eight family members had previously pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire/mail fraud, they were: Marks's daughter (Rosie Marks), son-in-law (Donnie Eli), her two sons and their wives (Michael Marks & Cynthia Miller and Ricky Marks & Nancy Marks), her sister (Victoria Eli), and granddaughter (Vivian Marks).[1][2][5][10][14]

 

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The family was identified as relatives of the late Gypsy leader, Jimmy Marks of Spokane, Washington by the New York Daily News.[6]

The Romani or Roma are a nomadic ethnic group, commonly known as Gypsies, who have been in the Americas since the first Romani people reportedly arrived on Christopher Columbus’ third voyage in 1498.[3][4] The largest wave of Romani immigrants came from the Balkans, Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia region in the late 19th century following the abolition of Slavery in Romania in 1864.[5][6]
The Roma live in populous cities such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Seattle and Portland as well as in rural areas in Texas and Arkansas.[10] The Roma can also be found in Las Vegas and Miami.[11]

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Probably the same crew.

Crooks posing as plumbers victimize 80-year-old woman in West Village

Three bandits wanted for posing as water department employees to burglarize apartments of the elderly in the Bronx struck again last week in the West Village, cops said. One of the crooks posed as …

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Crooks posing as plumbers victimize 80-year-old woman in West Village​

By New York Daily News | staff@nydailynews.com
PUBLISHED: February 24, 2011 at 4:00 a.m. | UPDATED: January 13, 2019 at 7:37 a.m.
Three bandits wanted for posing as water department employees to burglarize apartments of the elderly in the Bronx struck again last week in the West Village, cops said.
One of the crooks posed as a plumber and asked to step inside an 80-year-old woman’s home near Barrow and Hudson Sts. on Feb. 16, cops said.
The man – who is 35 to 40 years old and about 5-feet-9 with a medium build and a mustache – distracted the woman as his two cohorts rummaged through the apartment and swiped her jewelry from a bedroom, cops said.
The thieves are wanted for at least five similar crimes in the Bronx since Jan. 3, police said.
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.