Naples

Italian Mob Boss Is Arrested

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

Police arrested one of Italy's most wanted mob bosses, dealing a blow to one of the most powerful criminal clans in the region around Naples.

Police nab Naples mafia boss on most-wanted list

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 southern city...

Naples killer caught on video reportedly ID'd

CNN (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

Police have identified the man whose shooting of another man outside a store in Naples, Italy, was captured by a surveillance camera, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Saturday.

Italy arrests Naples mafia boss in chicken farm raid

France 24 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

Italian police on Saturday arrested one of the country's most wanted mafia fugitives after tearing down a wall in a dawn raid at a chicken farm where he had built a hideout, authorities said. Salvatore Russo, the 51-year-old head of a Camorra clan carrying his name, had been sentenced to life in prison for homicide and links to organised crime and was on the run since 1995, Naples police said in a...

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Video of mafia killing triggers row in Italy

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

Naples, Italy - In a controversial decision, Italian authorities on Thursday distributed a video showing a suspected mafia killing in Naples and appealed to the public for help in identifying the culprits. The final moments in the life of convicted m...

Shock video shows Italy mafia hit amid indifference

Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors released a video Thursday of a mafia-style murder in Naples met with indifference by bystanders, hoping it would help break a wall of silence over the identity of the killer.

In Naples' mob, there's no glass ceiling

L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

Women have risen to top rungs in the Camorra, unlike in Italy's other mafias. They're also violent. In most respects, it was a typical mob shootout: members of feuding clans facing down their rivals on the main street of the small town of Lauro, exchanging gunfire from their cars until three people lay dead and four others wounded.

Culinary Creativity: Chef Rebecca Newell-Part 1

The Passionate Foodie (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

(Check out my Introduction to the Culinary Creativity series.) Chef Rebecca Newell is the Executive Chef of The Beehive , a hot restaurant in Boston's South End. Raised in Glen Falls, New York, Newell spent much of her youth traveling with her family to Old Quebec City, Paris, Italy, Holland and other places. She eventually attended the New England Culinary Institute and then moved to Naples, Florida...

Italian police seize mafia boss' pet crocodile

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

Here's another of the Mafia's trademark offers-you-can't-refuse: pay or be eaten by a crocodile. Italy's anti-Mafia police unit said Wednesday it has seized a crocodile used by an alleged Naples mob boss to intimidate local businessmen from whom he demanded...

Italian police seize crocodile from suspected mafia boss

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009

Naples, Italy - Italian police have seized a crocodile allegedly used by a suspected mafia boss to intimidate people into paying protection money, officials said Wednesday. The 40-kilogram, 1.7-metre long, reptile which was kept on a terrace equipped...

Ex-cons in Naples get 2nd chance as tourist guides

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009

NAPLES, Italy -- Luigi "Giggino" Nocerino once stalked tourists through the tight alleys of this southern Italian city, snatching bags and valuables to fuel his drug addiction.

Swine flu stops Italians to kiss the blood of their patron Saint Gennaro

Mizozo (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009

Swine flu or H1N1 has been causing havoc all over the world. Last week, a 51-year-old man became Italy's first fatal victim of the H1N1 flu virus which has caused Italian authorities to take measures for stopping the spread of the virus. Most recently, the city authorities of Naples announced the decision to forbid kissing of the glass vial containing the blood devout Neapolitans' patron Saint Gennaro...

Italian Gov't Censors Doc on TV's Influence

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009

MILAN — Italy's state broadcaster RAI has refused to air ads promoting "Videocracy," a Swedish documentary examining the influence of television on Italian culture over the last 30 years, because it says the spots are an offense to Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Both of the 30-second promotional spots show a smiling Berlusconi, the 72-year-old media magnate and three-time premier. One opens...

Naples mafia suspect arrested in his underground bunker

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009

Naples, Italy - Italian police on Monday arrested a top mafia suspect when they raided his underground bunker hideout near Naples, news reports said. Giuseppe Bastone, 28, who appears on a list of Italy's 100 most- wanted criminals, had been on the r...

Godmothers rise on Naples crime turf

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009

NAPLES, Italy -- They go by such nicknames as "Fat Cat" and "Tomboy." Their simmering power struggles once drove them into the streets, guns blazing. They rule their crime families with steely determination, and also raise the kids and stir the pasta.