Did you mean Federal Hill? Or Cherry Hill in Johnston? RI. certainly has a tradition of corruption. That’s understood
My dad told me the story. In the seventies a good friend of his was drinking in a bar in cherry hill. He came out later in the evening and found his car stolen and went back into the bar asked the bartender for a phone to call the cops about his car. The bartender asked him not to make the call and wait in the bar with free drinks. About an hour or so later the car was returned to the front of the bar. The bartender said nobody steals from cherry hill.
I must of heard the story location wrong and been spreading it was providence. Not a town I know the best. I will remember the story as from Johnston. But still the mafia doesn’t like crap to happen where they live.