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Winnie the Pooh helps nab mobster
NAPLES, Italy, The wife of a fugitive Italian mobster has an affinity for Winnie the Pooh and police say that helped them track him down in Brussels.
Authorities had been trying to catch up with Vittorio Pirozzi for seven years. But it wasn't until they realized his wife always used the name of A.A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie the Pooh for her cellphone account that they were able to zero in on his whereabouts.
Despite the elaborate code the couple used to communicate, police figured out when she was talking to him and that eventually led them to Brussels, where they arrested him last Wednesday, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
The 58-year-old Pirozzi, a high-level member of the Camorra crime syndicate in Naples, had been on Italy's 100 most-wanted list after being convicted in absentia on international drug-trafficking charges.
He faces a 15-year prison term once he's extradited to Italy.
NAPLES, Italy, The wife of a fugitive Italian mobster has an affinity for Winnie the Pooh and police say that helped them track him down in Brussels.
Authorities had been trying to catch up with Vittorio Pirozzi for seven years. But it wasn't until they realized his wife always used the name of A.A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie the Pooh for her cellphone account that they were able to zero in on his whereabouts.
Despite the elaborate code the couple used to communicate, police figured out when she was talking to him and that eventually led them to Brussels, where they arrested him last Wednesday, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
The 58-year-old Pirozzi, a high-level member of the Camorra crime syndicate in Naples, had been on Italy's 100 most-wanted list after being convicted in absentia on international drug-trafficking charges.
He faces a 15-year prison term once he's extradited to Italy.
