US mafia boss arrested at Rome clinic
Image via Wikipedia Italian police on Thursday arrested Italian-American mafia boss Rosario Gambino at a Rome clinic where he was being treated.Police swooped on the 69-year-old Gambino after a Palermo appeals court issued an arrest warrant after his recent release from prison in the northern city of Parma.
Gambino, who is part of the crime family of the same name, worked with his brother to set up an international heroin cartel.
He was sentenced to 45 years in prison in 1983 after being found guilty of selling heroin to undercover police officers in the US as part of an investigation known as Pizza Connection.
At the time their drug operation was accused of importing $600 million worth of heroin into the US every year.
Following an Italian investigation led by the late magistrate Giovanni Falcone in 1985, Gambino was sentenced in absentia in Italy.
Gambino was born as the middle son of Tommaso Gambino in Palermo in 1942. He and his brothers Giuseppe and Giovanni Gambino moved to the United States in 1962.
They are distant relatives of the notorious American crime boss Carlo Gambino who headed one of the major families of the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra in the US for many years.
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