NYPD: Detective known for taking down some of the most notorious gangs awarded headstone nearly a century later

The Detective Endowment Association gifted relatives of Joseph L. Pucciano a headstone after nearly a century of an unmarked grave.

The NYPD say Detective Joseph L. Pucciano joined the forced in 1905 and was best known for taking down some of the most notorious gangsters.

Pucciano died in 1928 and until recently, his body was an unmarked grave at the Green-Wood Cemetery…

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