USF, HCSO preserve decades of records tied to Tampa's Trafficante crime family

Decades of evidence detailing the investigation into one of Tampa's most notoriously organized crime families are becoming more accessible to researchers and historians through a partnership between the University of South Florida and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.Trafficante family organized crime recordsUSF researchers have spent the past three years preserving and digitizing a massive collection of law enforcement records, including thousands of documents connected to the Trafficante crime syndicate.The collection contains approximately 90,000 archival documents from HCSO, including witness testimony, jail intake ledgers, mugshots, crime scene photographs and other investigative materials. The full collection spans from 1832 through 1984. A significant portion of the records focuses on law enforcement's efforts to investigate and dismantle the Trafficante crime family during the 1950s."There's a huge concentration of the documents about the attempt that in 1953 and 1954 t