Top Mafia boss found hiding at home in Italy

ROME - Italian police have arrested a fugitive top mob boss who escaped from a hospital in 2011 - finding him at home in a bunker built between the bathroom and his son’s bedroom.

Antonio Pelle is on the Interior Ministry’s list of most dangerous mob fugitives. He was serving a 20-year prison sentence for mafia association, arms and drug trafficking when he slipped out of the Locri hospital.

Police in southern Reggio Calabria said they arrested him Wednesday at home.

Pelle is considered the head of the Pelle-Vottari clan active in the Calabrian town of San Luca. The clan has been fighting the Nirta-Strangio clan, which drew international attention to Calabria’s ‘ndrangheta mob in 2007 when one of its feuds left six dead in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany.