1949 in organized crime

Events

• September 16 - Philip "Little Farfel" Kavolick, a member of Meyer Lansky's syndicate organization, is murdered in Valley Stream, New York.
• November 25 - Robert "Tinman" Sneddon, notorious Irish gangster, evades police in Boston, Massachusetts after a warrant is issued for his arrest.

  Arts and literature

• Raoul Walsh's White Heat is released starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien and Virginia Mayo.

  Births

• Louis Eppolito, NYPD officer and mob hitman
• Frank P. Frassetto, Rochester mobster
• Mahmood Ozdemir, UK Turkish crime boss
• Leonidas Vargas, Colombian drug lord
• 24 October - Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix, Mexican drug lord and Tijuana Cartel member.

  Deaths

• September 16 - Philip Kavolick "Little Farfel", Meyer Lansky associate and National Crime Syndicate member