Nog even wat interessante info over Joe Mammana die Beth "Hell-away" Twitty mee naar Nederland neemt:
quote:Anti-crime crusader's past includes troubles with the law
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - A man who has contributed thousands of dollars in rewards to the Citizens Crime Commission of Delaware Valley for catching killers and kidnappers has a lengthy criminal background, according to a published report.
Joseph Mammana, 44, has spent time behind bars for charges including aggravated assault, drug possession, fraud, car theft and identity theft, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in Saturday editions.
"Any of my criminal past and things like that are irrelevant," Mammana said. "Everybody makes mistakes when they're kids."
He served eight months in Montgomery County prison for striking his wife with a countertop in 1991, when he was 32. Mammana also was jailed in Florida and New Jersey on drug and fraud charges, as well as for the theft of cars, coats, and the identities of two people in the 1980s and 1990s.
Mammana has made more than $130,000 in public pledges to the crime commission over the past decade, including $5,000 to find the driver who ran over two Bucks County teens on a Florida beach; $5,000 to catch the kidnappers of 7-year-old Erica Pratt; and $10,000 to find the killer of 10-year-old Faheem Thomas-Childs. Mammana said most of what he has given to the crime commission has not been publicized.
At the time of his contributions, he was wanted on warrants in Bucks County and Florida, the paper reported.
Mammana, manager of a North Philadelphia egg-processing plant, would not say where he lives or discuss his business ventures. His attorney, Donald Williford, also declined to comment.
Last month, Charlotte County, Florida, recalled its 1992 warrant for a probation violation. On Tuesday, the Bucks County 1988 warrant was recalled after Mammana surrendered to sheriff's deputies. An April 19 trial date was set.
That warrant was issued after Mammana, a competitive bodybuilder, allegedly failed to pay $550 for a weightlifter's belt from Prestige Saddle & Harness of Quakertown.
"If he truly wants to be a good guy, he can start with me," Prestige owner Karen Porter said after being told of Mammana's philanthropy.
Citizens Crime Commission president John C. Apeldorn said Mammana always came through on pledges.
"I don't know if he had a shaky past or what, but he's been good to us," said Apeldorn, who declined to say how much Mammana has donated.
Mammana's first public pledge was in 2000 but the source of his funds is hard to track, the newspaper found.
He holds a mortgage to a house in Lower Makefield, Bucks County, but his name isn't on the deed. He owns three businesses in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey, but they do not apparently exist at their registered addresses.
One company, Paris Cosmetics, is registered at the home address of Mammana's mother, who said her son does not sell cosmetics from her home. Hope Mammana said her son turned his life around but she would not comment further.
In 1988, Mammana was charged in Montgomery County with raping a girlfriend, but the charge was dropped when he pleaded guilty to harassment. He received a suspended sentence.
In 1989 in Sarasota County, Florida, Mammana and another man tried to buy a Corvette using someone else's identity, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He spent three months in prison.
In 1990, he returned to the Philadelphia area and married his second wife, stating his job on his marriage application as steelworker. He then was ordered to pay restitution and serve three years' probation for bouncing a check at Zinman Furs in New Jersey two years earlier.
In 1991, he was charged in Montgomery County with opening a checking account in another man's name, and in Burlington County, N.J., with stealing three cars from a Nissan dealership.
That October, he pleaded guilty and served eight months for aggravated assault of his then-wife, Lisa, and for possession with intent to deliver steroids.
"He threatened to kill me, and he threatened to scar my face," she testified. "He threatened to have my father's house burnt down. He threatened to have my daughter raped and blinded."
When she said she wanted a divorce, Mammana tore a countertop from its hinges, struck her over the head with it and put a knife to her throat, she testified.
He later served one year for the car thefts in Burlington County.
Lisa Mammana, now Lisa Pazdan, did not return calls seeking comment.
April 10, 2004 1:47 PM
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