The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
NAPLES HAS long been a city where fiction seems all too real and reality all too fictional. When police arrested 62-year-old Camorra boss Pasquale Russo, early yesterday morning, they found on his bedside table not only a 9.21 calibre Beretta pistol but also a wig, a two-way radio system, a GPS tracker and a book called La Camorra by Neapolitan journalist Gigi Di Fiore.
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Pasquale Russo led one of the most influential clans of the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate, officials say Italian police seized another suspected mafia boss today in what the government claimed to be a major victory against organised crime . Officials say Pasquale Russo, who had been on the run for over a decade, led one of the most influential and deadly clans of...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Naples - Italian police on Sunday announced the arrest of another wanted mafia leader as part of its crackdown on the Camorra mafia in Naples. Italian media reported that Pasquale Russo had been sought for more than 16 years in connection with severa...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
WSJ NAPLES, Italy -- Police arrested one of the country's most wanted mob bosses on Sunday, a day after detaining his brother, dealing a blow to one of the most powerful criminal clans in the region around Naples. Pasquale Russo, 62 years old, had been on the run since 1993. He was arrested at dawn on Sunday in a remote farmhouse near Sperone, some 50 miles north of Naples. Italian authorities...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Italian authorities today hailed the arrest of three brothers who headed a Mafia clan in the Naples area as a "heavy blow" against organised crime. Pasquale Russo, 62, and Carmine Russo, 47, were arrested at a farmhouse at Sperone, 20 miles east of Naples, the day after their brother Salvatore Russo, the head of the clan and one of Italy's thirty most wanted fugitives,...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
A reputed mafia boss, on Italy's list of the 10 most wanted fugitives, was arrested Sunday in the Naples region, in a crackdown that also nabbed two of his brothers accused of organised crime, police said. Pasquale Russo, 62, was "the big boss of the (mafia) clan and has been on the most-wanted list for 16 years", a spokesman for Italy's paramilitary carabinieri police in the...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
11:02 a.m. ET ROME - Police in Naples have arrested two more suspected mobsters a day after their brother was picked up in a farmhouse hideout after 15 years on the run.Pasquale and Carmine Russo were arrested Sunday morning, the interior ministry said. The 62-year-old Pasquale Russo is on Italy's list of the 30 most dangerous fugitives and has been on the run since 1995,...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
11:02 a.m. ET ROME - Police in Naples have arrested two more suspected mobsters a day after their brother was picked up in a farmhouse hideout after 15 years on the run.Pasquale and Carmine Russo were arrested Sunday morning, the interior ministry said. The 62-year-old Pasquale Russo is on Italy's list of the 30 most dangerous fugitives and has been on the run since 1995,...
Security Management News & Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Police said 62-year-old Pasquale Russo, who lived as a fugitive for 16 years before being arrested on Sunday in a farmhouse north of Naples, was chief of the Russo clan, a leading player in the Camorra organized-crime syndicate that operates near Naples.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A MAFIA godfather considered one of Italy's ten most wanted fugitives was arrested yesterday just 24 hours after his brother in a serious blow against organised crime.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Italian police arrested one of the country's most wanted mafia bosses yesterday, dealing a blow to one of the most powerful criminal clans in the region around Naples.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A MAFIA godfather considered one of Italy's ten most wanted fugitives was arrested yesterday just 24 hours after his brother in a serious blow against organised crime.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Naples - Italian police arrested one of Italy's most wanted mafia bosses on Sunday, a day after detaining his brother, dealing a heavy blow to one of the most powerful criminal clans in the region around Naples.Pasquale Russo, 62 and considered one of Italy's top 10 mafia fugitives, had been on the run since 1993 and was arrested at dawn on Sunday in a remote farmhouse near Sperone, 80km...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Two brothers suspected of ruling over a Naples mafia clan were arrested on Sunday less than 24 hours after police captured another sibling who had also been on the run for years.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Italian police arrest two more suspected mafia bosses, a day after seizing their brother near Naples.
