Capone in Trinidad?
THAT’ S RIGHT, ONE OF AMERICA’ S MOST NOTORIOUS OUTLAWS ONCE VENTURED AROUND THE AGUILAR / TRINIDAD AREA
in perfectly with the Italian landscape that Trinidad had turned into during the 1920s and 30s.
Far from the hustling city streets of Chicago, Al Capone finds sanctuary in the county of Las Animas.
Italian immigrants in need of work made a home for themselves in these towns by working the mines. However, during the prohibition era, the word on the street wasn’ t mining; it was mafia. Using the tunnels underground Trinidad, liquor sales and other illegal operations became a way for these Italian families to gain power in the
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area. Al Capone’ s presence only illuminates theAmerican Mafia setting in the town of Trinidad.
Venturing between Trinidad and Aguilar, reports that Capone and his family hid from the constant search of law enforcement in these small mining towns have been verified. What better a place for an on-the-run criminal to lay low for a while. The town of Trinidad, especially, has plenty of opportunity for a man of his
stature. Known for his association with major mafia crime families in New York and Chicago, Capone fits
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