Mar. 18th, 2010

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One of Italy's 100 most-wanted criminals, a vicious mafia boss who had been on the run for months, was betrayed by his passion for social networking and flushed out thanks to Facebook.

Using the name "Scarface" from the gangster movie starring Al Pacino, Pasquale Manfredi, 33, a boss of the the ferocious 'Ndrangheta mafia organization from the Calabria region in southern Italy, had logged on to his Facebook account so often that police were able to trace the signal from his Internet key and find his hideout.

Manfredi was arrested on Tuesday after 50 police officers surrounded the three-story building in the town of Isola Capo Rizzuto where Manfredi iived alone in a tiny basement apartment. When they broke in to get him, Manfredi ran for the roof but was caught on the second floor by the police, who had anticipated the move. Manfredi had a ladder set up on the roof for just such an occasion. The hide-out was a one-room bed and kitchen affair which managed to fit two computers, a treadmill and weight bar for the boss to keep in shape.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/facebook-finds-mafia-boss/story?id=10124958
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A Polish court convicted three men Thursday of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December.

The men, two of whom are brothers, were given prison sentences ranging from 18 months to 2 1/2 years.

In footage from the court, TVN24 showed the men, with their faces blurred, showed each man in turn expressing regret and acknowledging that stealing the sign was not a good idea.

Krakow's district court said the men confessed to the theft and agreed to settlements, which meant the case did not have to go to trial. The court identified them only as Radoslaw M., Lukasz M., and Pawel S., in keeping with Polish privacy laws.

The theft occurred in the night between Dec. 17 and Dec. 18, a brazen heist that shocked Holocaust survivors and many others committed to preserving the Auschwitz-Birkenau site.


http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10132956

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