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In the words of one law enforcement source, “yes, we have some Bonannos.”

Law enforcement officials this week said they are “just about certain” they have uncovered the remains of two Bonanno family capos in the marshy lot in South Ozone Park, where FBI teams have been digging since Oct. 4.

Forensic teams unearthed dozens of personal effects and bones at the lot on 75th Street, including eyeglasses, an eyeglass case, a necklace, wristwatch and “other” jewelry, car keys and credit cards stamped with the name “Dominick Trinchera,” the sources said.

The teams also uncovered a boot with tissue attached, a set of teeth and a small gold cross on a chain.

Sources said the personal items also included a wallet, which was shown to relatives of Dominic “Big Trin” Trinchera and Philip “Lucky Phil” Giaccone for identification.

“We’ve got them,” one source said. “All we are waiting for now is the DNA and forensic analysis.” The sources added that Giaccone wore eyeglasses, and the keys “definitely belong to Trinchera.”

Trinchera and Giaccone were both brutally shotgunned to death during a crime family war in the 1980s, authorities said. Both are believed to have been whacked in hits ordered by the late Gambino don, John Gotti Sr.
Investigators are certain they’ve found two bodies, along with cloth and duct tape used to wrap the corpses, the sources said.

Teams uncovered a second pelvic bone, a foot bone (in the boot), a human skull, a jawbone, a rib, “other” vertebrae and a hand, sources said.

Ellen Borakove, a spokesperson for the city medical examiner’s office, which is working on the excavation with the FBI “Bonanno Squad” agents and NYPD Queens Cold Case Squad detectives, said a forensic anthropologist will examine the remains, and DNA tests will be conducted with samples taken from surviving relatives of victims believed to be buried in the lot. Testing should be completed within 10 days, Borakove said.

Trinchera and Giaccone were killed along with Bonanno capo Alphonse “Sonny Red” Indelicato in 1981. Indelicato’s body was found in the lot a few weeks after the hit, by children playing there. Indelicato’s body was wrapped in a white sheet, tied with a clothesline and wearing an “expensive” watch, authorities said. He had been shot once in the head and twice in the torso.

Investigators believed Trinchera and Giaccone were buried in the lot along with Indelicato, but their bodies were not recovered at the time.

Informants told FBI agents recently that the lot was a “very popular” burial ground for evidence of “hits” committed on Gotti’s orders, the sources said.

FBI teams have also shifted some of their digging to another area in the lot where they believe they will find the remains of mobster Tommy DeSimone – the psychotic killer portrayed by Joe Pesci in the hit
movie “Goodfellas,” and Joseph “Joe the Barber” Spione.

Sources said the teams have switched some of the locations and are using shovels, hoping to “bang into” barrels containing the remains of the two men.

The pair were buried in separate barrels, or in one barrel, thought to be buried in the lot, the sources said.

Teams are also digging to recover the remains of Gotti’s neighbor, John Favara, who disappeared shortly after he killed Gotti’s son, Frank Jr., in an automobile accident in the 1980s.