Career
Sica mentored many West Coast mobsters, including Mike Rizzitello and Anthony "the Animal" Fiato. Chistopher "Chris" Petti was Sica"s longtime partner in the Los Angeles and San Diego rackets. Sica"s brothers Alfred, Angelo, and Frank were also associates of Sica"son
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Sica was first arrested in 1926 at age 15.
In 1950, Sica was indicted with 15 other mobsters for conspiracy to distribute narcotics in California. However, the case was dismissed after Abraham Davidian, the prosecution"s star witness, was shot to death while sleeping at his mother"s home in Fresno, California.
Sica once refused an order by Los Angeles Defying Dragna made Sica a well-respected man amongst Cohen and his bookmakers, but it alienated the Los Angeles family against him. Cohen"s bookies sided with Sica and in an attempt to avoid another gambling war, Sica gave up a piece of his lucrative bookmaking business to Dragna.
Sica worked in Los Angeles so long that he eventually became a close associate of the Los Angeles family.
Joseph Sica died on November 21, 1992.
