Italy’s most wanted, Pasquale Russo, was arrested with his younger brother Carmine Russo in 2 AM raid on a farmhouse in Sperone, Avellino, about 20 miles east of Naples Sperone. The 62-year old Russo is one of the 30 most dangerous criminals in Italy since 1993. He is an Italian Camorrista and boss of the Russo clan from Nola. He co-founded the clan and has been running the organization for about thrity years. The court issued an international warrant of arrest against him on February 15, 1996 for being involved in numerous crimes.
The Italian police spokesman said that they found Russo hiding in a tunnel behind a wall of the kitchen. He was armed with a pistol at the time of arrest. The police found 9×21 caliber Beretta pistol with serial abraded, detector microphones, two magazines with ammunition, a wig used to disguises, night vision device , The police have seized a , a and a In the farmhouse where the two were hiding there was a wig, probably used to disguises, and a copy of the book “The Camorra,” by the journalist Gigi Di Fiore.
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