Overview

• Carabinieri's GIS stormed his hideout at dawn after Foggia investigators, coordinated by the Bari anti-mafia office, pinpointed the location.
• Officers found him asleep and seized a loaded pistol with its serial number removed; he surrendered without resistance.
• The 39-year-old had been wanted since 2020 and is regarded by authorities as a prominent member of the Società Foggiana's Moretti-Pellegrino-Lanza faction.
• He has a first-instance 12-year conviction for mafia association from the Decima bis case, now enforceable with his capture.
• Investigators continue inquiries into alleged extortion and drug trafficking, and they link him to the 2011 killing of Claudio Soccio in Foggia.