Ex-Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy

After 15 years on the run from police and mob hitmen, ex-Mafia boss Michele Micalizzi is back in custody, authorities said Tuesday.

Police tracked the 46-year-old Sicilian clan leader to a villa in Taormina and arrested him Saturday, but news of the arrest was not made public until Tuesday.

Micalizzi, who was last seen in public in 1980, was a target in an internal feud between factions of the Corleone-based crime family. Micalizzi and his brother narrowly escaped a mob ambush in 1982 in Palermo.

Micalizzi was convicted of murdering a police officer who surprised him as he tried to extort money from a businessman in 1975. He was sentenced in absentia to 22 years in prison.