An early member of the Brooklyn Sicilian immigrant community. Samuel Parino would go on to establish himself as a member of the powerful Brooklyn underworld society known as the Unione Sicilione. Parino became a favorite bodyguard, gunman and confidant of Gaspar Milazzo one of the Unione's higher ranking members. Parino would join Milazzo in relocating to the city of Detroit in or about 1922, after Milazzo and his good friend Stefano Magaddino became embroiled in an old world fued with the Buccellato clan.
This old tranfer of an old world family fued which was continued after members of both families "the Magaddino and Buccellato's," settled in Brooklyn. Milazzo himself an immigrant Sicilian joined in the fray after a near miss shooting as he left a Brooklyn market in the company of Magaddino that took the lives of two bystanders. The blood bath that followed cost the Buccellato clan several members and their place as a power in the Brooklyn underworld. The assault alledgedly carried out under the direction of Milazzo and Stefano, drew the attention of police who began looking for the two Unione leaders who promptly fled Brooklyn for the confines of Detroit and Buffalo New York where they became important men under those cities reigning leaders Sam Cantalonotte of Detroit and Joe DiCarlo Sr., of Buffalo.
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Parino would join his mentor Milazzo in his relocation and subsequent climb in influence in the organization headed by Cantalonotte. Parino would be arrested only once during his stay in Detroit and that would come in 1927 when he was picked up and charged with armed robbery. The charges would be dropped and Sasha Parina would continue to rise in influence as a member of the Unione. Following the death of Sam Cantalonotte after a brief bought with pneumonia in February of 1930.
Parino would be exceeded in rank and influence amoung the Detroit Unione members by his mentor Gaspar Milazzo who had resorted to identifying himself as Gaspare Sciblia and or Gaspar Lombardo. As the top aide to Milazzo, Parino became something of an underworld diplomat keeping the peace between the warring bootlegg gangs which had been united peacefully by Cantalonotte's Pascuzzi Combine. Following Sam's death, greed and ambition began to threaten the peace as members of the Eastside Mob under the direction of Angelo Meli began battling with members of the Westside Mob headed by former Gianolla lieutenant and gunman Chester "Big Chet" LaMare. Following several infractions on LaMare's part which pushed the Detroit underworld to the verge of all out war.
LaMare called a peace conference to be held by the heads of his gang and the leaders of the Eastside Mob on May 31, 1930. Angelo Meli agreed to attend the meeting but suspecting a trap requested that Milazzo and Parrino, both known as peacemakers of in the Detroit underworld attend and represent him during the meeting. Milazzo and Parrino arrived at the Vernor Highway fish market owned and operated by Phil Guastells in Milazzo's new expensive car shortly before noon, both men were ushered through the market, seated and served lucnh in the living quarters which were located in the rear of the market. Just after the noon hour, two gunmen under the employ of Chester LaMare entered the area in which Milazzo and Parino were seated and began pumping bullets into the two diners.
Milazzo was killed instantly but Parino who sustained wounds to his chest, adomen and left arm servived long enough to be taken to Receiving Hospital where he was questioned in Italian by a Detroit policeman "who learned virtually nothing," and treated for his wounds before dying at 3:22 p.m. The murder of the two peacekeepers sparked an all out war which lasted less than two full months but claimed the lives of 14 gunmen from both sides. The violence which led to the second highest casualty total "concerning mafia violence," in Detroit history with 19 murders, ended with the brazen excecution and subsequent crackdown resulting from the murder of crusading radio personality Gerald Buckley on July 23. Samuel Parrino was survived by at least one brother Joe who had remained a member of the Brooklyn underworld and would be claimed as a result of that cities underworld explosion which ultimately lead to the revamping of the Sicilian underworld by Charlie Luciano the following year.
