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Italian Mafia Fugitive on Run for 20 Years Caught by Google Maps

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0:00 [Music] police have been able to catch an escaped mafia henchman who's been on the run for 20 years whoa and it's all thanks to google maps what's his name fat sal i ████ hate that google maps ████ me fat tony i don't even know that like the crimes that aren't solved within like i don't know six months or a year are continued like pursued they just go in the shrug folder all right yeah this is the shrug folder it's an emoji they should be in the forget about it that's stupid after 10 years forget about it it goes in the ████ out of here ken

0:56 he was miraculously spotted on google maps outside a grocery store in spain okay oh this is a 60 year old dude he was living a quiet life in the region and found work as a chef before setting up his fruit and veggie shop why does that seem like that ████ analyze this kind of story plot like gamino used the fake name and was largely successful in escaping sight from italian police up until of course they discovered the image in the town of galapagos north of madrid oh that's not fun if it's not an american italian mob we're still doing the voice thing yeah ryan's still going to do the same thing they still all talk like that they all still throw this in there he's not from spain though right no no no italian so yeah we can from new york or new jersey yeah just mafia that's how they sound this mafia henchman who changed his name to manuel was shown

1:46 chatting to someone outside the street corner store called in his garden and the big breakthrough came when detectives investigated the nearby restaurant mount his kitchen incredibly on the eateries facebook page there was a photo of the fugitive who was dressed in chef white's and despite it being 20 years since he was last seen a dis a distinct scar on his face reminded the uh remained and the authorities were able to confirm the man's identity scar in her face how how much of a mobster is this guy this is this is the photo that showed up on google maps why does that look like such a ████ mob hangout too yeah like they're just sitting there smoking like they're smoking cigarettes in the front going forget about it forget about it does that mean yeah does that mean that the detective was also on the job for 20 years and that's the one he couldn't solve maybe like that for the detective on his deathbed gave it to the next guy was

2:37 like please find him a bunch of manila folders find these guys never ever ever one case i'd be so bored if that was my job for just my whole entire career is one ████ case what did he do what did this guy do he made italian food i bet he better half is he making italian food on the menu was something called sena siciliana sicilian supper which was possibly a reference to his past life it was spaghetti you know yeah so he was arrested on december 17th reportedly completed uh and he reportedly was super baffled after being caught he literally said how did you find me yeah uh he reportedly asked police while adding i haven't even phoned my family for the last 10 years so the mobster is going to be sent to an italian jail to serve a life sentence and has been convicted on a range of crimes from murder to drug trafficking

3:28 and mafia association did you find one go dude yeah well just let him go go who was looking at google maps that tied the tube because like i mean yeah we could have seen this guy been like and then you know what's weird is that google maps always blurs the face so how did they know was this dude maybe he looks like that in real life it was a facebook picture it was a facebook picture oh yeah so uh you can't really go that far though if you think about it well to spain come on across the board you love paige yeah i mean out of the country 20 years you probably still think you won yeah yeah yeah that's true that's true little cocky guy uh it's believed that gamino was on the italian interior ministries list for the country's most wanted fugitives as well as gamino being a part of a mafia family from agrigento in sicily which was

4:18 prominent in the 1990s he was first arrested in 84 and was investigated by high-profile anti-mafia prosecutor prosecutor giovanni falcone and the prosecutor was assassinated by the gang in 92. whoa giovanni after the day of his car so imagine that the ████ prosecutor who arrested him at 84 ended up ████ getting murdered by them blowing up his car oh ████ car bomb ████ he was a movie ████ with murder in 94 and after going on the run was captured in barcelona three years later he then escapes prison in roman 02 and authorities were on the lookout ever since his recapture wow prison yeah so that's awesome real gangster dude if you escape prison go to it go farther away go like like north africa like get africa's well maybe you can't fly yeah

5:09 that's true huh right this is like i can't get a boat this guy's car you can't get a boat dude yeah i think i think blowing up a car and getting a boat are very different things what's harder get the boat before you blow the car you gotta do things in the right order you wanna survive come on come on come on pope dude about it shane ipod shuffle come on you got an order forget about it that's some g ████ though that's pretty that's out of a movie i bet this guy has some crazy stories i'm actually this guy is a movie yeah he is for sure this is going to be a movie it's called scarface that does he has a podcast it's called something entertainment value entertainment something like that but he he uh he interviews all these mob dudes one there's like tons of mob dudes from hitmen to successful guys like from top

6:00 like different levels different organizations and every single story is just like can be a movie in itself soft white underbelly does that too yeah yeah those are crazy mobsters people who hacked for like 30 years it's crazy are they like already incarcerated people that way you can sit down talk to these people yeah they've already like done their time yeah so it's like they can speak freely some of them are famous they're uh he interviewed the guy from casino i think or like the guy that was um well the the robert de niro the other guy from casita right no like so these these stories the the scorsese stories are based off of true events right and then the people behind it like the people behind um willful wall street like the actual with wall street the actual like um guys from goodfellas stuff like that yeah wow

6:53 i know man ████ crazy it's crazy sometimes the real story's worse too yeah and it's a lot longer yeah obviously then three hours max or the movie is needlessly complex whereas i heard that the way that they killed jimmy hoffa was like super straightforward how was that they were well i was one of those mobsters being interviewed one of those podcasts but he was like they say uh hey we drove him all the way from like wherever the ████ it was middle america to all the way to like boston he's like there's you know how long you would have to drive with a dead body in your car if you got pulled over like you're ████ like he's like no they just like probably killed him in that area and buried him in that area and it's over like that's it you know uh and i think they even said he even said that they they might have he doesn't know exactly what happened to him but they might have like just just um cremated him and then

7:44 yeah it's a lot simpler than saying he's in the foundation of this skyscraper exactly you could dig it up somehow or you could get to it somehow it's more romanticized right or they say he's like in um underneath some stadium or something but you know they just cremated them one of my favorite uh mob movies is casino by far my favorite and um when i really like something like i like to go like behind the scenes and and who the real people were whatever right so like in the movie what i never understood is um the nero's character is a simp he's an absolute simp he can't get this girl whatever but like he's a handsome dude it just doesn't make no sense right but his character the real life one ed lefty rosenthal when you see his pictures it makes sense it's like oh this guy he looks like a ████ dork like a straight sip and his wife at the

8:35 time was a ████ knockout like it's like she's way out of his league yeah so then the yeah the the girl who plays sharon stone she is like a model type like she looks great and then it's like your stereotypical story of this guy who maybe uses like um you know status at the casino and then all this stuff to get the hot girl but then she doesn't really like him and i'm like oh this make they should have casted a little complex yeah it's hard to to believe it when you see a character like de niro right yeah and you know it's de niro so it's even cooler and james woods in a body cast somehow scoring with her though right the whole time a weak little pimp it's like he's the one that should be the sip here

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