Post by diane9247 on Jan 6, 2022 4:56:51 GMT
One of Italy's Most Wanted was captured on December 17th after he was spotted on Street View.
The menu a Manu's Garden featured Sicilian dishes. Glapagar is in the middle of Spain, which may have given the fugitive a false sense of safety. Imagine the rounds of high-fives among the Sicilian police detectives when Gammino was spotted looking casual in baggy jeans and a beige shirt. After he was arrested, he said, "How did you find me? I haven't even called my family for 10 years." Ah, Signore, it was the power of Street View!
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Fugitive Mafia.kmz (866 B)
Gioacchino Gammino, 61, was found in Galapagar, Spain, where he was living under the name Manuel.
A Google Street View shot showing a man resembling Gammino standing in front of a grocery shop was key to tracking the fugitive, investigators say.
Gammino escaped a Rome prison in 2002 and was sentenced to life in jail the following year for murder.
He was a member of a Sicilian mafia group known as Stidda and was one of Italy's most wanted gangsters.
Sicilian police believed Gammino was in Spain, but it was the photo of him talking to a man outside El Huerto de Manu, or Manu's Garden, that triggered an immediate investigation. [Source]
A Google Street View shot showing a man resembling Gammino standing in front of a grocery shop was key to tracking the fugitive, investigators say.
Gammino escaped a Rome prison in 2002 and was sentenced to life in jail the following year for murder.
He was a member of a Sicilian mafia group known as Stidda and was one of Italy's most wanted gangsters.
Sicilian police believed Gammino was in Spain, but it was the photo of him talking to a man outside El Huerto de Manu, or Manu's Garden, that triggered an immediate investigation. [Source]
The menu a Manu's Garden featured Sicilian dishes. Glapagar is in the middle of Spain, which may have given the fugitive a false sense of safety. Imagine the rounds of high-fives among the Sicilian police detectives when Gammino was spotted looking casual in baggy jeans and a beige shirt. After he was arrested, he said, "How did you find me? I haven't even called my family for 10 years." Ah, Signore, it was the power of Street View!
Take a look...
Fugitive Mafia.kmz (866 B)
