A NEW YORK-ALBANIAN MOBSTER, BACK IN THE NEWS FOR STATEN ISLAND STABBING
Redinel Dervishaj, the brother of one of Kevin Heldman’s main villains in his series on the New York-Albanian mob, is currently being hunted by police for allegedly stabbing groom-to-be Anthony Lacertosa outside a Staten Island restaurant with a butcher knife.
As Kevin recounted, Dervishaj went with his brother and Albanian gang comrade to the Ridgewood house of a man named Lulzim Kupi, threatened to kill his family and demanded $20,000 in extortion money. Kupi had his own gun and there was a firefight in the streets. Dervishaj was shot the arm and his brother was killed.
He reportedly borrowed money from friends, and is now on the run from the authorities.