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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT DETROIT, MICHICAN

R$PORT MADE AT

DATE WHEN MADE

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

5/29/46

TITLE

D

JOHN CAESAR GROSSI, with aliases

PERIOD FOR

WHICH MADE

4/12,17;5/16/

46

DETROIT FILE NO. 47-24,22

REPORT MADE BY

JANES T. O'BRIEN

CHARACTER OF CASE

INPERSONATION

ILLEGAL WEARING OF THE UNIFORM

NATIONAL STOLEN PROPERTY ACT

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

Subject in signed statement admits

he never was a member of the United

States Navy; admits wearing uniform;

pilfered official Navy discharge and

leave forms and filled out same,-

altered ident (Navy) card which he

found, Admits interstate transpor-

tation of fraudulent check from

Baltimore to Chicaga. Indicted on

April 12, 1946, on dharges of imper-

sonation and illegal wearing of the

uniform.

On april 15, 1946, pleaded

guilty to impersonation count.

Illeg-

in wearing of the uniform count dis-

missed on motion of United States

Attorney. April 19, 1946, sentenced

to two years imprisonment. Disposition

SISTIOS

, sheet and parole report submitted.

JUN

REPENTICE:

1945

DETA

ILD

I - USA, Detroit

2 - Detroit

COPY IN FILE

52 JUN 2 4 1946

5359)

Report of Special Agent

CIS W. MATTHYS dated March 8,

Sp6, at Chigago, Illinois.

Sof

On April 12,

Wayne County Jail

1946, the Subject was interviewed at the G

where he furnished the following

signed statement:

CIAL AGE

MUN IN CHAN

43

DO NOT WRITE IN TH

+ 5359-126

osure,

RECORDED

36 JUN

1946

Ex 133

D. B. 00T88ME7 TRUEN

7-203

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. &

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT DETROIT, MICHIGAN

REPORT MADE AT:

DATE WHEN MADE:

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

5/28/46

NAME OF CONVICT WITH ALIASES:

JOHN CAESAR GROSSI, With aliases

John Jack Grossi, Jack Dale Williams,

Rodger Garland Dickman

VIOLATION:

IMPERSONATION

ILLEGAL WEARING OF THE UNIFORM

DETROIT FILE NO. 47-2422

REPORT MADE BY:

JAMES T. D'BRIEN

MVi

PAROLE REPORT

This convict was indicted by the Federal Grand Jury at

Detroit, Michigan, on April 12, 1946, on a charge of Impersonation and

Illegal

wearing of the Uniform. He was arraigned on the same date and

requested counsel at which time his final arraignment was deferred. On

April 15, 1946, he

arraigned with counsel and pleaded guilty to the Imper-

sonation count

in the indictment. The count charging Illegal Wearing of the

Uniform was dismissed

on the motion of the United

1946, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment.

States Attorney. On April i9,

In addition to the one check, cited in the indictment,

which was passed in Detroit the convict has admitted passing approximately

fifteen fraudulent checks in Chicago, Illinois, Baltimore, Maryland, and Dallas,

l'exas.

The approximate value of these checks was nine hundred dollars by his

own estimation. It will be noted that in Detroit the checks were passed upon:

the father.of

a sailor with whom the convict had struck up an acquaintance

and-by whom he was being entertained.

he was

He has also admitted that while in Baltimore, Maryland,

able to pass

several fraudulent checks among the triends of his wife

alter he had induced his wife to endorse the checks in the belief they were

bona fide.

At the time of his apprehension on February 13, 1946, at Chicago,

Illinois, he had in his possession rumerous official papers of the United

States Navy purporting to show that he was a bona fide member of the armed

service on re-enlistment leave, that he had received & certificate of honor-

able discharge for previous service,

that he was entitled to wear several

campaign ribbons and decorations including the Purple Heart.

APPROVED AND!

FORWARDED:

Ra

Tuein,

(DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES)

RECORDED AND INDEXED:

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE.

COPIES OF THIS REPORT FURNISHED TO:

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CHECKED OFF:

Bureau

2

- Detroit

6-46-46

JACKETED:

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FILE:

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

ROUTED TO:

43-1364-25

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In the signed statement which he gave to Agents in Chicago

while admitting that he had passed worthless checks he continued to maintain

that he was a member of the United States Navy and that the documents in his

possession were valid. In a signed statement

subsequently taken in Detroit,

Michigan, he admitted that he had been attempting to "bluff" his way through

his difficulties and was not nor had never been a member of the United States

The records reflect that the Subject was previously

apprehended at Savannah, Georgia, on March 29, 1944, wearing a United States

Navy uniform, in New Orleans on July 4, 1944, wearing the uniform of the

United States Maritime Service,

This convict was born August 5, 1927, at Patterson, New

Jersey*

He married ELIZABETH JOINER at Baltimore, Marylana, in November, 1945,

and

subsequently deserted her in January, 1946, when she discovered that he

had been passing fraudulent checks. His

father, a resident of Patterson,

New Jersey, has a criminal record as far back as 1920, for disorderly conduct,

assault and battery, drunkenness, desertion, non support, passing fraudulent

checks and abandonment and cruelty to children.

His mother, also a resident of Patterson, New Jersey, but

separated from his father, has a criminal record reflecting charges of

aban-

donment of minor children

and disorderly person.

His brother, ALBERT, whereabouts unknown, was convicted of

larceny in April, 1938, at Patterson, New Jersey, and was subsequently paroled.

He was convicted

on a charge of sodomy in May 1938, and committed to an

institution.

His sister, has no official criminal record but has a very

poor reputation in the community of Patterson.

The convict himself was first arrested in 1942, at the

age of fourteen for larceny of war bond stamps.

After repeated violations

of his probation he was committed to a reform institution from which he ran

away in 1943.

The following known criminal record for the convict under

FBI number 3967794 was received from the Bureau.

Contributor of

Fingerprints

State Police

Philadelphia, Pa

#0-16673

Name and Number

John Jack Grossi

#- State Police

Media, Pa

Arrested or

Received

8-17-43

Charge Disposition

Juvenile delin- returned to: N.J.

quency

state Home

SOVS

N. J*

Home sfurg,

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Contributor of

Fingerprints

Name and Number

Arrested or

Received

Charge

Disposition

USM, Savannah,

Georgia

Jack Dale Williams

#S-1603

3-30-44

USil, New Orleans, John Caesar Grossi

#7368

PD, Miami Beach,

John C. Grossi

Flas

#C-89437

Usi, Shreveport, : Rodger Garland

Dieckman

#36420

USM, Chicago, Ill. John C. Groosi,

#12971

Co. Jail,

John Caesar Grossi,

Chicago, Ill.

#63039

USM, Detroit,

Mich.

John Caesar Grossi

#17420

7-6-44

' Wearing the

5-11-44,

uniform of the both charges

US Navy STSA

dism.

of 1940

JUV. Del. Act

8-2-44, 7 days on

chg. of Imperson-

ation.

Porter

F. P.

12-1-44

2-2-45

Inv.

2-7-45, rel.

2-14-46

2-14-46

4-2-46

checks, forg.

impers, off.

U. S: Navy

Impersonation

Sec. 76 I 18

USC

TOI USM, Detroit

TOT USM, Detroit

2 years imprison-

ment

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58S-19235

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