A fugitive Italian drug dealer was captured in a Mexican resort after posting photos of himself living the good life on Facebook, police said.
The sun-tanned 65-year-old posted selfies while lying on a beach andworking out in a gym in the tourist town of Playa del Carmen, on the Caribbean Sea.
Facebook pictures posted under the mafioso's alias – Saverio Garcia Galiero – show a happy man living large south of the border – beaming as he takes the sun at the beach or relaxing with his arm draped around a pretty companion.
But not all his “friends” liked his posts.
Back in Naples, where he was born, detectives tasked with finding fugitives were studying his timeline to confirm his real identity: Giulio Perrone, 65, a convicted drug smuggler who had been running from the law for more than two decades.
T he mafioso's mugshot, taken shortly after he was arrested CREDIT: ITALIAN POLICE
Perrone had been a fugitive since 1998, when his lawyers failed in a final appeal against a 22-year prison sentence for links to the Naples mafia, the Camorra, and international drug trafficking.
He was first charged in 1993 after he and his wife were arrested while trying to import 16 kilos (35 pounds) of cocaine.
Perrone disappeared the following year and had been unheard of until Italian police established, through Facebook, that he was living as Saverio Garcia Galiero, in Tampico, in the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico.
Perrone was deported and returned to Italy..