Overview
- Police found Mazzarella with his wife and two children in a villa in Vietri sul Mare on Saturday, and he surrendered without a fight.
- Officers seized €20,000 in cash, three luxury watches, several phones and forged identity papers from the €1,000‑a‑night property.
- The 48-year-old was No. 4 on the Interior Ministry’s most‑wanted list and had been on the run since January 2025.
- Prosecutors accuse him of ordering multiple contract killings, including a 2000 shooting in a Naples butcher shop as a revenge attack.
- Authorities identify him as head of the influential Mazzarella clan within the Naples-based Camorra, long tied to counterfeiting and money laundering.