This morning the Carabinieri police from Torre Annunziata arrested 48-year-old fugitive boss of the Ascione-Papale clan, Ciro Papale, also known as "button".
Papale was at large since January 2008 absconding from justice after a prison order for drug trafficking and a preventive detention order for criminal conspiracy and mafia-based extortion. The Carabinieri found him in Ercolano in a flat on Via Trentola together with his nephew and family. Papale tried to escape running over the rooftops but was then surrounded and captured on a terrace.
