Top mafia boss Pasquale Bonavota arrested by Italian police after 5 years on the run
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Italian authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a top boss of the 'Ndrangheta mafia after almost five years on the run. He had been featured on the police's list of most dangerous criminals.
Pasquale Bonavota, 49, was wanted since November 2018, after escaping an arrest warrant for homicide and mafia association issued by a magistrate in Calabria, in southern Italy. He was arrested Thursday morning in the northern port city of Genoa, Italy's carabinieri police said in a statement.
Local media said he had been leaving the city's cathedral when he was arrested and was carrying a fake ID.
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