This is the moment a Mafia boss in charge of one of Italy’s most notorious crime families was arrested by armed police. Footage released by the Italian Ministry of Defence on Tuesday (7 October) shows ...

In January 2023, Sicilian police officers arrested a man they'd been seeking for 30 years: Matteo Messina Denaro. He joined ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s.

The Italian government can now offer children and wives of mafia bosses a way out of the family business.

Wives and children offered new identities to try to stop gangsters recruiting down the generations ...

Mafia bosses have been secretly moaning about the “miserable” quality of recruits leaving them “on our knees” — while dreaming it could be more like “The Godfather.” “The caliber these days is low, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Louis Manocchio, the last Rhode Island boss of the New England crime family, has died. He was 97. 12 ...

What happened to never going against the family? Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s mafia, have reportedly complained that mob recruits aren’t what they used to be, as nearly 150 people ...

Former “boss of bosses” Toto Riina, one of the most feared Godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia, died early Friday after battling cancer, Italian media reported. Riina, who had been serving ...