Italy, U.S. police target Mafia in raids
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Authorities in Italy and the United States conducted raids Thursday targeting dozens of alleged members of Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic, officials said.
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U.S., Italian authorities round up mob figures, including leaders of notorious Gambino family.
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Mexican police raided a town late on Wednesday and arrested alleged members of an angry mob that lynched two undercover officers a day earlier.
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Police broke up an Italian-Canadian mafia clan that ran drug trafficking and money laundering operations, arresting 12 people on Tuesday and seizing millions of dollars in assets, officials said.
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Italian anti-Mafia magistrates ordered the arrest of 65 people as part of a massive police swoop in Naples in a bid to staunch the bloodletting in a turf war which has killed more than 120 people, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu revealed.
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U.S. authorities arrested 54 organized crime suspects on Thursday including three they considered high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family, officials said.
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Finance police have raided the offices of Italy&#39;s Olympic organizers for records on the Turin committee&#39;s work ahead of the 2006 Winter Games, officials said on Thursday.
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Police in southern Italy have arrested the head of the powerful 'Ndrangheta Mafia clan, officials say.
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Police in Italy arrest four more suspects in a crackdown on ultra-left guerrilla group, the Red Brigades.
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US and Italian authorities lauched a massive operation against the New York and Sicilian Mafia Thursday, arresting 74 suspects in a sweep described as a major blow against organized crime.
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A judge in southern Italy orders the arrest of 52 politicians and others on suspicion of Mafia links.
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Dozens of people are held by US and Italian authorities targeting an alleged drug-trafficking racket.
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PALERMO, Sicily  - A large anti-Mafia operation involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
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Police on Tuesday arrested 46 suspected members of the Sicilian Mafia, saying they had rolled up a network of curriers who carried written notes from reputed mob boss Bernardo Provenzano to his lieutenants.
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BELFAST, Dec. 24 -- Police staged raids Friday in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of the $42.5 million stolen this week from a bank's underground vault.
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Anti-Mafia judges have ordered the arrest of 52 people suspected of having links to extortion and money-laundering rackets in a southern region of Italy.
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Italian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of 40 suspected Calabrian mafia members over the slaying of six Italian men in Germany two weeks ago, ANSA news agency reported Thursday.