Crime

Crime History: Hoover arrests Karpis, last ‘Public Enemy’

By The Examiner
Published April 30, 2009 4:00am ET
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On this date, May 1, in 1936, J. Edgar Hoover arrested Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, essentially ending the age of the big-name Depression-era criminals.

The capture of Karpis elevated Hoover and the FBI to national prominence.

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