Crime & Safety

Sides Battle Over Swampscott Native's Beard

The prosecution wants the reputed mobster to appear with and without his beard.

Enrico Ponzo, a Swampscott native, may have to shave, according to a Boston Herald article.

Then regrow his beard so members of a federal grand jury can see him in both aspects, according to the article about the reputed mobster.

Ponzo is accused of trying to put a whack on “Cadillac Frank” Salemme before he west making his home on the range.

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