The Underplay of the Zarelli Crew

"I was around like Tony Jack and some of these other men, I'm not even going to say their names because they're kids and nephews or whatever," he says. "They were kind of like a dunce crew that were very separate from the few men that I knew." He recalls how his grandpa asked him if he could pick up dinner at Tony Zarelli's restaurant in Hamtramic for $500 per week. The offer went wrong when it turned into an extortion attempt by two black gangsters who tried to take over the deli.