Persico, 45, didn't even have a cell phone the feds thought would link him to the suspected murder of family underboss William (Wild Bill) Cutolo (right) when they raided his Park Slope, Brooklyn apartment and tore it apart looking for the wireless phone.

But Persico's latest bout with the feds ended up worse than his confrontation with the Coast Guard last year when they found a loaded handgun and shotgun on the 50-foot speedboat he was piloting in the Florida Keys.

FBI agents and NYPD detectives found $25,000, a cool $1 million in alleged loan sharking records, and other records on a computer diskette hidden in a stove. They found an arrest complaint against a Colombo capo who died

The raiders also found several pieces of false identification -- including two with his photo -- a social security card, a birth certificate and a valid, active credit card in the name of "Robert Aliberti." The weekend raid led to an unusual Sunday arraignment in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Assistant U.S. attorney Jim Walden said Persico committed crimes that violated bail conditions in the Florida case, including meeting with other high ranked members of the Colombo family. "It is an overwhelming case against Persico," said Walden.

All things considered, Persico (left) faced 70 years in prison on a variety of bank fraud, loansharking and racketeering charges, was a danger to the community, a threat to flee, and should be held without bail, said Walden.

Magistrate Judge Arlene Lindsay agreed, and ordered federal marshals to transport him to South Florida where he went to trial yesterday on the charges stemming from the Coast Guard seizure. For the time being, at least, Persico again joined dad Carmine, (right) the jailed-for-life former family boss in a federal lockup.

"I think the government will stop at nothing to create a case against Alphonse Persico," said his lawyer Barry Levin, claiming the apartment was Persico's 21-year-old daughter's residence and that he was there to see her before departing to trial in Florida.

"The search warrant was a pretext to harass him. They stayed in the house for 16 hours, tearing the place up and down, and they came up with a lot of nothing. They just put away (John) Gotti's son, now they want to put away Persico's son."

It's extremely unlikely Junior will be housed at the federal penitentiary in Marion, where his father has spent most of his time since his arrest in 1990, but as a convicted reputed acting boss of a crime family, he's not likely to be housed at a minimum security prison either. 

Gotti, 35, who also has some college credits on his resume, was sentenced last month to six years and five months in prison for racketeering, bribery, extortion, gambling and fraud.

With credit for the nine months he served immediately following his arrest early last year, young Gotti should be home in less than five years.

It's a long time, but a hell of a lot less than Persico is looking at if he goes down on his Florida and New York cases.