Mafia boss arrested by Italian police dressed as pizza delivery guys

Possibly the most Italian thing ever?
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A mafia boss has been arrested while watching a football game by undercover police officers disguised as pizza delivery guys, in the most Italian raid since The Godfather Part III

Roberto Manganiello, 35, a major boss in the Camorra clan Marino in Naples, was arrested Sunday evening while watching Inter-Naples on TV, the Interior ministry said.


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The fake delivery staff knocked on his door at an apartment in Orta di Atella, 15 kilometers north of Naples, where police say he runs a drugs and extortion ring, arresting him along with a 30-year-old Neapolitan woman. 


Interior minister Angelino Alfano praised the raid on Twitter, describing it as a “success due to top-level investigative work."

Manganiello was blacklisted as "one of Italy's 100 most dangerous criminals" in 2013 for an alleged double homicide in 2004 that sparked a feud war in Naples. 

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