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Top Italian mob boss is captured in bunker

Zagaria had been on run since 1995

Italian officers led Mafia boss Michele Zagaria from a police station in the southern province of Caserta yesterday. Italian officers led Mafia boss Michele Zagaria from a police station in the southern province of Caserta yesterday. (Ciro De Luca/Reuters)
Associated Press / December 8, 2011
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Police yesterday captured one of Italy’s most-wanted fugitive mobsters, arresting the last major boss of one of Italy’s bloodiest mafia clans. Michele Zagaria, on the run since 1995, was found in an underground bunker in Casapesenna, in his hometown province of Caserta in southern Italy, the headquarters of the Casalesi clan of the Neapolitan Camorra.

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