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Chucky Pancamo
Chucky Pancamo image
First appearance "Ancient Tribes" (episode 2.02)
Last appearance "Exeunt Omnes" (episode 6.08)
Reason/Cause End of Series
Details
Prisoner No. 97P468
Aliases Chucky the Enforcer
Gender Male
Age Unknown
Date of Conviction June 4, 1997
Affiliations The Sicilians
Spouse Unspecified
Relatives Angelo Pancamo (Nephew)
Kill Count 3
Episode Count 46 Episodes
Portrayed by Chuck Zito

Charles Pancamo, also known as ”Chucky the Enforcer”, is a Sicilian inmate featured in Oz. Portrayed by Chuck Zito.

Character Summary[]

"Prisoner number 97P468, Charles Pancamo AKA “Chucky the Enforcer”. Convicted June 4, 1997 - Murder in the second degree."
The Narrator[src]

Nicknamed “Chucky The Enforcer,” Chucky Pancamo is introduced in the show's second season. He is a Sicilian-American serving time for tying up a woman in a bag and then throwing her into an ocean. Pancamo is primarily an enforcing member of the Wiseguys until he is asked to take over by Antonio Nappa. Pancamo runs the gambling and drug businesses in Oz. He makes several mistakes as a soldier and as the leader of the Sicilians. However, he does find a way to escape each situation through his toughness and is the only leader in Oz to make it through the duration of the show.

Plot Summary[]

Season 2[]

Chucky Pancamo serves as a lieutenant to Peter Schibetta, the leader of the Sicilians. Pancamo’s job assignment is working in the prison cafeteria. Pancamo hates the black inmates who work in the kitchen and refers to them as "moolie,” a racial slur that means “eggplant” in Italian. Ryan O'Reily tells Schibetta that his father was murdered by Simon Adebisi, the African leader of the Homeboys. (He had actually been murdered jointly by Adebisi and O'Reily). Meanwhile, Schibetta asks Miguel Alvarez to murder Adebisi for a partnership in the drug trade. Alvarez refuses and decides to let Schibetta and Adebisi fight each other. Warden Glynn quickly becomes angry at Schibetta’s constant blackmailing and veiled threats. Glynn's brother murdered a man for the Sicilians on the outside, and Schibetta uses that to manipulate Glynn to give him what he needs. Glynn angrily tells Schibetta that Schibetta’s father got along with him and that he would never have extorted him. Schibetta responds indifferently and continues to blackmail Glynn. Glynn finally confronts his brother and regretfully tells him that he must turn himself in to the police for the murder he committed.

Schibetta is poisoned by Adebisi and Alvarez who give him a partially opened chocolate bar tainted with rat poison. After Glynn's brother confesses to his crime, an enraged Glynn transfers the Sicilians to work in the women's dress factory as revenge for Schibetta blackmailing him. Soon after, Sicilian staff member Lenny Burrano, an investigator who works as an inside consultant for “The Family”, tells Schibetta that his superiors are embarrassed by his leadership, and if he doesn't kill Adebisi soon his position of leadership will be revoked. Schibetta thinks of a plan to take down Adebisi and ambushes him in the cooking area after paying off a corrections officer to leave the room. Pancamo assists Schibetta in his intent to murder Adebisi. They seem to have the upper hand in this battle; however, Adebisi proves to be a strong foe and defeats both of his attackers. He knocks out Schibetta; then he clobbers Pancamo with a large can of peaches. From there, he rapes the semi-conscious Schibetta, but Pancamo would later not confirm to the officers that the sexual assault had transpired since he was unconscious. When Pancamo gets out of the hospital ward, black inmates Kenny Wangler and Junior Pierce mock him for being beaten by Adebisi. Meanwhile, Schibetta is traumatized by the rape and is transferred to the psych unit of Oz, leaving the Wiseguys without a boss.

Things look up for the Sicilians, however, when Antonio Nappa arrives and brings them back into power. Nappa first arrives in Oz being told by Warden Glynn, with support from Tim McManus that he cannot commit revenge against whoever raped Peter Schibetta. Nappa says he only asks that they punish the man responsible. McManus says they will when they find him and points out that Pancamo was unconscious and Schibetta is unwilling to testify. Nappa asks if he can visit Schibetta, but the Warden forbids it. From there, Nappa goes to Lenny Burrano and asks him what Simon Adebisi values most. Burrano tells him that it’s heroin and that Adebisi is a fiend. Nappa advises Burrano to suggest to Glynn to conduct a random drug test on the prisoners — during which, Burrano selects Adebisi as one of the inmates for testing. Adebisi tells the prison psychiatrist and drug counselor Sister Peter Marie, that he will start going to her drug counseling sessions and stop taking drugs. Adebisi begins to go through detox. After learning from Ryan O'Reily that it was Nappa who engineered the drug testing to slow Adebisi down, Adebisi attempts to cut the throats of the Sicilians in the cafeteria in front of everyone until an elderly, African inmate named Kipekemie Jara is able to dissuade him. As Adebisi suffers, The Wiseguys steal all the drugs that he was going to sell and use. Then Nappa makes an offer to Wangler that he can’t refuse. Nappa tells Wangler that if he whacks Kipekemie Jara, who now has Adebisi under his control, he can work as his business partner, and they will call a truce. Wangler and Jara work on the same kitchen detail, so Wangler can easily stab Jara with a kitchen knife in the cafeteria with no correctional officers around to interfere due to being understaffed. Wangler does so, Jara dies, and the Sicilians accept the Homeboys as their partners. Adebisi gets blamed for Jara’s murder by the authorities but is found not guilty in a court of law due to insanity and is transferred out of the general population and into Oz’s psych unit. He is placed in a cell next to his old rival, Peter Schibetta.

Season 3[]

The season starts with Adebisi being fully rehabilitated and he is released from the psych ward. In Emerald City, Nappa gets stabbed by Adebisi with an AIDS-infected needle. Adebisi however is able to convince Nappa that he accidentally pricked him with Adebisi’s comb. Later, Nappa tests positive for HIV. As a result, Nappa gets transferred out of Em City and into Unit E, which is a ward for inmates with AIDS or HIV. Before Nappa leaves Emerald City, he gives control of the Wiseguys to Pancamo. Nappa then attempts to kiss Pancamo on the cheek, but Pancamo moves. A few weeks later, Pancamo finds out that Nappa is hoping to publish a book detailing all of Nappa’s criminal acts that have taken place over the last century. With authority from the outside, Pancamo personally destroys the book and arranges for Nappa’s cellmate, Nat Ginzburg to murder Nappa.

Adebisi comes to Pancamo, asking to be partners in the drug trade. Pancamo is still angry with Adebisi however for knocking him unconscious in the kitchen last year. Adebisi tells Pancamo that he could be a strong ally since he was a strong enemy against Pancamo. Adebisi says that if something were to happen to Wangler, he and Pancamo could be partners. Pancamo agrees and Adebisi, with help from The Latinos, invade the kitchen when no correctional officers are around and burn Homeboys Arnold "Poet" Jackson and Junior Pierce with a pot of hot soup. Wangler is left without any help and at Adebisi's mercy. Pancamo, Adebisi and Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez now are three way partners in the drug trade. Pancamo also represents the Sicilians in a prison boxing tournament. After easily knocking out a Biker in round 1 of the first fight, Pancamo somehow later loses in the semi-finals to Cyril O'Reily, the younger and mentally handicapped brother of Ryan O'Reily. Wondering how he lost to an inmate who he had over 60 lbs. on, he is told by Nikolai Stanislofsky that the fight was fixed by Russian hitman, Yuri Kosygin who is doing life in Oz. With advice from O’Reily, Pancamo gets Kosygin placed in the hole by informing him that Stanislofsky had told Pancamo of his alleged involvement in the drugging of Pancamo’s water. Later, racial tension rises in Oz, and Pancamo and Hernandez tell Adebisi to end the rhetoric or else they will be unable to sell drugs if the prison is locked-down, 24/7. Adebisi refuses and walks away from them. Hernandez points out to Pancamo that Adebisi is in his "loco" mode again. In the cafeteria, the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, Vern Schillinger, tells Pancamo and all the other white inmates that they must all stick together because the color of their skin binds them. Warden Glynn, however, locks Oz down going into the new millennium.

Season 4, Part I[]

Oz is no longer locked down. Glynn however has an assembly in the cafeteria and separately and sternly warns the black and the white prisoners that if there is any race-related violence, Glynn would permanently lock Oz down. The threat works, racial tension settles down and things for the time being go back to normal until a new inmate named Guillaume Tarrant, a Caucasian Frenchman, commits a mass shooting inside Emerald City after getting bullied and assaulted by black inmates. Previously however, Pancamo sponsored a new Italian-American inmate, Ralph Galino, a contractor who is imprisoned for his alleged part in a collapsed building. Pancamo asks Galino if he is “connected.” Galino responds by telling him that not every Italian-American is “mobbed up” and that he has no criminal connections, works an honest job, and despises the stereotypical criminal image that many Italians and Sicilians have and that a “guido gangster is an ugly and unfair stereotype”. This response has Pancamo cause the Wiseguys to ignore Galino as he cannot provide any use to their operations. Meanwhile, Hernandez has a nervous breakdown, given his frustrations with trying to kill his enemy, Miguel Alvarez. He also reports Adebisi to the Warden for getting Clayton Hughes to bring him a gun inside Oz the day Hughes was fired as a C.O. In the meantime, a new Latino inmate, Enrique Morales, arrives in Oz. Because Morales comes in with credibility and Pancamo and Adebisi think Hernandez is on the verge of a mental breakdown, Pancamo and Adebisi prefer that Morales run the Latinos in the drug trade, giving him Hernandez's third if he is eliminated. Morales agrees and then arranges for elderly inmate Bob Rebadow to kill him. Desmond Mobay, a Jamaican inmate needs into the drug trade. Unknowing to Pancamo, Adebisi and Morales, Mobay is really a black-American undercover narcotics detective whose real name is Johnny Basil. Pancamo, Adebisi, and Morales all ask “Mobay” to do various tests to prove that he is worthy of their partnership, such as taking repeated punches from Pancamo and snorting heroin. (which undercover police officers are forbidden by law to do) A straw poll is then taken to determine if Mobay is worthy, where Pancamo votes; yes, Adebisi votes no, and Morales abstains. To break this tie, the ringleaders decide that Mobay can be in the drug trade with them if he kills an inmate far from Emerald City, which must look like an accident. Mobay does so and is allowed to join. Things get even better in the drug trade when the new unit manager, an African-American man named Martin Querns comes to Oz to run Emerald City. Querns tell Adebisi that he, Pancamo, and Morales can have unrestricted drug dealing if they prevent violence from happening inside Emerald City. He enforces this by making Pancamo, Morales, and Adebisi trustees. Pancamo likes this system because it can allow Em City to be like Little Italy in the old days. Meanwhile, Hank Schillinger, son of Aryan Brotherhood leader Vernon Schillinger, beats a kidnapping and murder charge for kidnapping two of Tobias Beecher’s kids and killing his eldest son. Beecher goes to Pancamo and hires him to arrange a hit on Hank Schillinger, which he does after Beecher promptly pays him. Things start to get complicated, however, when several of the white inmates and guards are transferred out of Em City. All the new guards and inmates are black and allied with Adebisi. Don Zanghi calls black inmate Mondo Browne the “N” word after a heated argument. Browne strikes Zanghi to the floor. Zanghi is thrown into the hole because he provoked Browne. Pancamo is hit with a billy club by C.O Adrian Johnson for sticking up for Zanghi. With things getting out of hand, Pancamo and Morales both talk to Adebisi about how they are disappointed with how things are going in Em City and the drug trade. Adebisi tells them that he now controls the drug trade completely. When they threaten to go to war, Adebisi first points out they will both lose since Em City is now overwhelmingly black and then tells them that he and Querns have arranged for all the Sicilian and Latino inmates to be transferred out of Emerald City and into Unit B. In Unit B, Schillinger suggests to Pancamo that former Emerald City manager, now the Unit B manager, Tim McManus should create an all-white unit, which McManus ardently rejects.

Season 4, Part II[]

Warden Glynn fires Martin Querns and rehires Tim McManus to run Emerald City. Em City is no longer a majority black unit and the 10 original groups that were at the reopening of Em City in 1998 are no longer in Unit B and are now back in Emerald City. Some with new members. Adebisi is dead and things in Em City eventually return to normal. (as normal as “normal” can be in Oz.) With no leader, the Homeboys are out of the drug trade, so Pancamo and Morales jointly run operations. The Homeboys are brought back into the fold, however, by a new inmate, Burr Redding. Pancamo and Morales offer a partnership to Redding, but he rejects their offer. As a result, Pancamo and Morales tell ex-communicated Homeboy and Five-Percenter Kevin Ketchum (a.k.a. “ Supreme Allah”) whom Redding despises, that he can be their partner if he kills Redding. Ketchum agrees, but needs time to get the other Homeboys on his side. In the meantime, Morales frames Redding for murdering Chinese refugee, Bian Yixhue and as a consequence, Redding plans to have the Homeboys attack the Latino and Sicilian inmates in the gym. The Sicilians and Latinos are playing basketball when the Homeboys and their Chinese ally, Jia Kenmin attempt to assault them. Augustus Hill however, tipped off the S.O.R.T. team. Ketchum then says to Pancamo and Morales that he will get Hill to kill Redding since they are not on good terms for the time being. Things backfire, however, when Poet and Hill murder Ketchum.

Season 5[]

Peter Schibetta is found sane by the law and is released from the psych unit after four years. He returns to Emerald City and works as Pancamo’s lieutenant, and gets a job in the cafeteria. While in the kitchen, Pancamo is called to interrogation by F.B.I. agent Pierce Taylor who tells him that a hitman named Gaetano Cincetta has implicated him in a hit on Hank Schillinger. Pancamo denies everything and compliments Agent Taylor’s tie. Taylor tells Officer Mino to take Pancamo back to “whatever hole he crawled out of”. Pancamo stands and gives what some might think is a flirtatious smile to Taylor. Pancamo later tells Tobias Beecher that if he is asked by Vern Schillinger what has happened, he will not implicate him. Taylor tells Vern Schillinger in the interrogation room that Pancamo was the one who ordered the hit on Hank Schillinger. In the gym, Schillinger leads the Aryan Brotherhood into attack on the Sicilians. As Pancamo prepares to assault Schillinger, Aryan soldier James Robson approaches him from behind and stabs him in the side, putting him in the hospital. Peter Schibetta then goes out for revenge but is instead gang-raped by the Aryans and gets transferred back to the psych unit. Beecher asks Pancamo to protect Adam Guenzel, an acquaintance of his from the advances of the Aryan Brotherhood, and Pancamo has the Sicilians do so. In the gym, James Robson tries to assault Guenzel, but new inmate Frank Urbano and the other Sicilians intervene and defend Guenzel. The guards break up the fight and Urbano is tossed in the hole. Redding then visits Warden Leo Glynn asking him for control of the cafeteria. Glynn says no at first because the Sicilians run the cafeteria and the last Homeboy who managed the cafeteria, Simon Adebisi did a disastrous job. However, Redding points out that the Sicilians current leaders are all out of the loop, that he is not Adebisi and that the black inmates who are the majority of the staff don't take too well to "kowtowing to Dagos." After hearing this, Glynn gives Redding control. Redding also requests that the Sicilians be transferred out of the kitchen. Glynn agrees. So with control of the cafeteria and the drug trade, Redding and the Homeboys have good things going for them. When Urbano is released from the hole, he runs the Sicilians and sees that they are weak in the drug trade due to the injuries to Pancamo and Schibetta. They are also at a low point because their allies, the Latinos have gone to work with their African-American rivals in the drug business. At dinner one night, Urbano states to the Sicilians that the best way to get back in full swing is by whacking Redding. Fellow wiseguy, Salvatore DeSanto then states that they had tried to whack Redding before and that he does not know how to die. Urbano tells DeSanto that anyone can die. Following that statement, DeSanto goes braindead due to an overdose of LSD in his food brought on by Redding. This happened because Poet had framed DeSanto for drugging Augustus Hill, whom Redding cares for deeply. When it is learned that DeSanto did not drug Hill, Poet frames Carmen Guerra for Hill's hospitalization. As the Homeboy/Latino alliance comes to a close, Morales approaches Urbano with the intent to be drug partners again. Urbano tells Morales that the Sicilians will forgive them only under a 60-40 deal where the Sicilians get 60% of the drug profits. Morales agrees only under the condition that Redding dies. Urbano attempts to stab Redding but Augustus Hill gets in his way and gets stabbed instead and dies. This leaves the Homeboys in complete shock and disarray, but puts the Sicilians back into in the drug business. At the end of the season, Pancamo nearly dies in the hospital from a staph infection brought on by poor medical treatment, but he survives thanks to Oz's chief physician, Dr. Gloria Nathan

Season 6[]

Pancamo is out of the hospital ward and returns full-time to running the drug and gambling businesses in Oz. Peter Schibetta is out of the psych unit again and has been transferred to Unit B. Ryan O'Reily lies to Pancamo about Peter Schibetta wanting to curse Pancamo with the Sicilian curse, “The Evil Eye”, but Pancamo believes him and he, along with the other Sicilians, whack Schibetta by removing his eye. Pancamo sees that James Robson has been exiled from the Aryan Brotherhood and tries to charge at him in the library for shanking him, but the correctional officers stop him. Robson seeks safety from the Sicilians by going to Aryan inmate Wolfgang Cutler, who makes him his prag in return for his protection. Pancamo tries to assault Robson in the cafeteria, but Cutler intervenes and punches Pancamo. The inmates cheer and laugh, appearing to mostly side with Cutler. The C.O.’s break up the fight and we are to presume that Cutler is sent to the hole. Pancamo is sent to the Warden’s office. Pancamo has a visible bruise on his left cheek from the fight. Glynn scolds Pancamo for his lack of listening ability, orders him to focus, to be silent and to either nod or shake his head. Glynn then tells Pancamo that the Homeboys are working as telemarketers and he needs someone to run the cafeteria. Glynn gives Pancamo control of the kitchen under the condition that he stays away from the Aryans. Pancamo nods his head in agreement, but then angrily asks Glynn what he gave to the Nazis. Glynn orders him to be silent again and has an officer escort him out. In the gym, Pancamo, Urbano, and the other Sicilians approach Robson and tell him that if he whacks Cutler, they will forgive him. Robson convinces Cutler to try erotic asphyxiation, so Cutler hangs himself, and Robson makes it look like a suicide. Pancamo is then approached by Redding, who asks him to stop any attempt the Homeboys make at dealing drugs so they can come back to work as telemarketers. Pancamo gladly does so and has one of Poet’s connections whacked on the outside. The Sicilians then discover new inmate, Stanley Bukowski selling marijuana brownies, which results in them killing him, since they believe he would steal all their profits while selling them. Near the end, the Sicilians have a monopoly over the drug trade in Oz, with the Homeboys working as telemarketers and the Latinos leaderless. In the meantime, a gay nightclub owner named Alonzo Torquemada is sent to Oz and sells designer drugs called D-Tabs. Torquemada approaches Pancamo with an offer he can't refuse - A partnership, using his connection through Pancamo's nephew, Angelo as a reference. Pancamo accepts the deal and to celebrate their new partnership, Torquemada gives Pancamo some free D-Tabs for him to pass among the Sicilians.

The last we see of the Sicilians is of them sitting in the cafeteria, completed stoned out of their greasy, pompadour minds.

Fuhgettaboutit.


 

Appearances[]

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4, Part I

Season 4, Part II

Season 5

Season 6

Kill Count[]

Personal

  • Unnamed Woman: Tied up and thrown into the ocean. (1997)
  • Peter Schibetta: Murdered for allegedly betraying the Sicilians. (2003)
  • Stanley Bukowski: Murdered for cutting into the Sicilians profit. (2003)

Proxy

  • Antonio Nappa: Ordered his death for planning to reveal incriminating evidence against the Sicilians. (1999)
  • Hank Schillinger: Hired by Tobias Beecher to have him killed through outside contacts. (2000)
  • Sky Bar: Ordered his death to monopolize the drug trafficing in prison by cutting off the Homeboys drug supply. (2003)

Indirect

  • Raoul Hernandez: Arranged Morales to get him killed to have him to take Hernandez's part in the drug trade
  • Wolfgang Cutler: Convinced by Robson to hang himself in exchange for the Sicilians leaving Robson alone. (2003)

Trivia[]

  • Several times when Pancamo is shirtless, you can see he has a tattoo of the Hells Angels logo on his chest. This is because the actor who portrays Pancamo, Chuck Zito, was a former chapter president in the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.
  • In season 5, while Pancamo is in healthcare, it is mentioned that his grandfather was a friend of Al Capone
The Sicilians

Antonio Nappa - Chucky Pancamo - Nino Schibetta - Peter Schibetta - Dino Ortolani - Frank Urbano - Salvatore DeSanto - Joey D'Angelo - Don Zanghi - Mario Seggio

Boxers

Chucky Pancamo - Kenny Wangler - Hamid Khan - Cyril O'Reily - James Robson - Jason Cramer - Miguel Alvarez - Steve Pasquin

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