Jan 15 2009
MIAMI — Tommy Hussey was standing in the courtroom today, watching John Connolly shake hands and hug people and he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
“I never seen anything like it,” Tommy Hussey was saying. “Guy gets 40 years and you’d think he won the Lottery.” Continue Reading »
Jan 14 2009
Giuseppe Setola, one of Italy’s 30 most wanted men, was captured not far from his home at Caserta near Naples
Rome — Giuseppe Setola, the Naples Mafia boss who eluded a police raid earlier this week by escaping through a trapdoor in his hideout into the sewers, has been arrested after two days on the run. Continue Reading »
Jan 13 2009
CASERTA — An alleged Mafia hitman eluded capture Tuesday by fleeing his house through a tunnel to the sewer system beneath Caserta, near Naples, Italian police said.
Police said Giuseppe Setola, 38, featured in Roberto Saviano’s bestselling work on the Mafia in Naples, “Gomorra,” is one of Italy’s 30 most wanted criminals. Continue Reading »
Jan 13 2009
A suspected mafia boss on Italy’s most wanted list escaped arrest on Monday through a tunnel dug under his home linked to the local sewage network, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Continue Reading »
Jan 12 2009
INTELLIGENCE on Italian Mafia links to Lancashire has been gathered by police.
Officers have been accumulating intelligence on individuals over the past 18 months which has been passed on to Italian authorities for offences committed abroad. Continue Reading »
Jan 12 2009
Naples — – The suspected head of a murder squad run by the Camorra clan denounced in Roberto Saviano’s global bestseller Gomorrah dodged arrest Monday by diving into a tunnel built under his hide-out, police said.
Giuseppe Setola, 38, the Casalesi clan’s alleged killing team leader, is thought to have made his escape by reaching a sewer network at a town near Caserta north of Naples. Continue Reading »
