Italian Mobsters Go to Ridiculous Lengths -- Not to Avoid Arrest
Mafia gangsters have been arrested in some pretty far-out ways over the years, as the U.K.'s Telegraph reports.
In August 2009 police arrested an alleged mafia boss who was hiding in an underground bunker equipped with a skateboard to propel himself down a 200 yard secret tunnel only waist high. Giuseppe Bastone planned to make a getaway by lying on the skateboard and pushing himself along.
Police said he had been hiding in the bunker, which had solid steel walls, for nearly a year. It was equipped with a fridge, a plasma screen television and a DVD player.
In August 2010 cops arrested a fugitive alleged mafia don by waiting until he was having a swim in the sea – and therefore would be unarmed. Salvatore Facchineri had evaded capture for six months when he was grabbed and handcuffed by police while taking a dip in a holiday resort on the coast of Calabria.
A convicted hit man who had escaped from jail was recaptured after police found him having a tattoo applied in a beauty parlor. Salvatore d'Avanzo, 48, was in the middle of having the tattoo of a Samurai warrior inscribed on his arm. He had been serving life for multiple murder convictions when he went on the run.
When police burst in on him, he said: "Thank God it's you, I thought you were hit men."
Bernardo Provenzano, the alleged "boss of bosses" of Cosa Nostra in Sicily, was arrested in a run-down shepherd's hut in 2006 after an incredible 43 years on the run. He had been the subject of a huge manhunt but in the end police found him a few miles outside the town of Corleone, long synonymous with the mafia. Provenzano was nicknamed 'The Tractor' because, as one informant put it, "he mows people down."
Read the full article: Mafia arrests: from the sublime to the ridiculous - Telegraph
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