Italian police tracked down and captured one of the country’s most-wanted fugitive mafia suspects through Facebook.
Pasquale Manfredi, believed to be an influential figure in the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, was found in Calabria.
Manfredi is said to call himself as ‘Scarface’, after a 1983 epic movie with the same name starring Al Pacino as Godfather Tony Montana.
The 33-year-old, father-of-two faces charges of murder, mafia association and drugs trafficking.
Manfredi was arrested while trying to escape from the roof of an apartment building near the southern city of Crotone, BBC reports.
Authorities believe that Manfredi, who would log on under the Facebook name Georgie, received coded orders via the site and also kept in touch with mobsters, according to a report on The Sun.
Pasquale Manfredi was on Italy’s 100 Most Wanted List and had been on the run for a year with police wanting to question him in connection with two bloody Mob hits; the murder of rival mobster Carmine Arena who was taken out with a bazooka in October 2004 and Pasquale Tripaldi a year later.
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