Al Capone mugshot was captured by the Miami Police Department in Florida.
Capone frequently retreated to his luxurious 14-room mansion on Palm Island in Miami to escape the intense scrutiny of Chicago law enforcement. However, Florida authorities were determined to make him feel unwelcome.
The Miami Police arrested him on charges of vagrancy and suspicion. This was part of a broader strategy of legal harassment orchestrated by local officials who wanted to force the notorious gangster out of their city.
He is dressed in a high-end tailored suit, a pristine white shirt, a silk tie, and an expensive overcoat, projecting the image of a wealthy, legitimate businessman rather than a street criminal.
Capone sports a confident, relaxed smirk for the camera. This expression captured his utter disdain for local law enforcement, whom he routinely evaded through bribery, political corruption, and intimidation.
The profile shot subtly displays the deep scars on the left side of his face—the result of a razor slash during a bar fight in his youth in New York—which gave him the legendary nickname “Scarface.”
While Capone easily walked away from this specific arrest in Miami by posting a small bond, his freedom was short-lived.
The federal government was already pivoting its strategy. Unable to convict him for bootlegging or murder, federal prosecutors successfully indicted him for income tax evasion in 1931. This landmark conviction ultimately stripped him of his power and sent him to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, and later, to the maximum-security island of Alcatraz.