Brazil captures escaped Italian mob boss Morabito - police

BRASILIA, Brazil - Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in the northeast of Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy.

Morabito, considered the head of the 'Ndrangheta group, was captured in the city of Joao Pessoa along with another Italian "outlaw" as a result of a joint investigation with Italy, Brazil's federal police said in a statement. -- Agence France-Presse