James Belcastro
In the early 1920s, Johnny Torrio and Al Capone formed the Chicago Outfit and put the Black Hand gangs out of business.During the mid to late 1920s, Belcastro was suspected of causing over 100 deaths while bombing saloons that refused to buy alcohol from Capone.An indication of the attitude of the police to Capone's organization was that they suggested the attack came because Belcastro was an independent operator.On August 23, 1945, James Belcastro died of heart disease (although other accounts mistakenly claim his date of death on October 13, 1933).[citation needed] Belcastro was portrayed by Peter Mamakos in the 1959 television movie The Scarface Mob as well as on The Untouchables TV series.