Metro

Mob turncoat gets 12 years after copping to 5 hits

A mob turncoat who admitted to helping kill five people ā€” including a Brooklyn cop šŸ€…ā€” landed just 12 years behind bars Tuesday.

And, thankā™s to time served, Colombo soldier Joseph ā€œJoey Cavesā€ Competiello will be out in fewer than six years.

Competiello, 43, pleaded guilty to the slayings as part of his government agreement to testify againsā™t his crime-family associates. That deal saved him from a potential life sentence.

Judge Brian Cogan, armed with a leniency plea from prosecutors, called Competielloā€™s coopšŸ§øeration ā€œextraordinary.ā€

Key to the sentencing deal was the fact tš’ŠŽhat Competiello testified against fellow mobster Dino ā€œLšŸƒittle Dinoā€ Saracino during Saracinoā€™s trial in the slaying of NYPD Officer Ralph Dols.

Dols was married to the ex-wife of reputed CošŸ¼lombo acting boss Joel ā€œJoe š”Waverlyā€ Cacace.

Competiello testified he was the lookout man and at the wheel of a ā€œcrash carā€ that was to be ready to ram any responding police cruiser after Saracino and another hit man gunned down Dols outside his Sheepshead Bay
home in August 1997.

The murder was ą·“a cold case for years until Comā™”petiello revealed Saracinoā€™s alleged role as part of a federal deal.

Despite Comš’†™petielloā€™s testimony, Saracino, Cacace and another mob bosļ·½s, Thomas ā€œTommy Shotsā€ Gioeli, were acquitted in the copā€™s murder.

But Competielloā€™s testimony did help prļ·½osecutors put them away ź¦on other charges.