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Then on Sunday police captured the crime boss and his son-in-law as they were leaving the fortified home, the statement added. The latter faces a 20-year sentence on accusations of drug ...
Matteo Messina Denaro (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo mesˈsiːna deˈnaːro]; Sicilian: Matteu Missina Dinaru; 26 April 1962 – 25 September 2023), also known as Diabolik (from the Italian comic book character), was a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano.
The Independent explains that the last-known photo of the Mafia boss was taken in 1959 but police captured him in 2006 after using the same imaging software to create an up-to-date image of him.
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia’s “boss of bosses,’’ Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.
Lo Piccolo was in fact betrayed because he was arrested with his son of whom police did have a recent photograph. [2] Lo Piccolo was born in the neighbourhood Partanna Mondello in Palermo. He was the driver of the local Mafia boss Rosario Riccobono, who was killed in the Second Mafia War. Lo Piccolo changed sides and became an ally of the ...
Salvatore Riina (Italian pronunciation: [salvaˈtoːre (toˈtɔ r)riˈiːna]; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called Totò (sicilian diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino ...
Giuseppe Falsone (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe falˈsoːne]; born 28 August 1970 in Campobello di Licata), sometimes spelled as Falzone, is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was on the " Most wanted list " of the Italian Ministry of the Interior from January 1999, until his arrest in France in June 2010. [ 1 ]
Two top Mafia mobsters were discovered holed up in an armed underground bunker after more than a decade on the run.