A mobster accused of racketeering and murder is back in custody after escaping federal custody by walking away from a halfway house near Orlando.
64-year-old Dominic Taddeo was transferred from a medium-security prison in Sumter County, to a halfway house near Orlando in February.
According to court documents, Taddeo was scheduled to reside at the facility until his release from federal custody in February of 2023.
However, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, on March 28, Taddeo never returned to the halfway house after an “authorized medical appointment.”
Shortly thereafter, he was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons.
On Monday, the U.S. Marshals Service announced Taddeo was apprehended without incident by the U.S. Marshals Service from the Southern District of Florida and the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force.
In a press release, U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida said “the tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo.”
According to NBC Miami, Taddeo was convicted of federal racketeering charges and pleaded guilty to multiple other cases involving weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption among other offenses, which included the killing of three men on behalf of the La Cosa Nostra, a Rochester-area crime family.