300 held in mafia crackdown

ROME - ITALIAN police on Tuesday said they were carrying out an operation to arrest more than 300 people in a crackdown on the 'Ndrangheta, the crime syndicate operating in the southern region of Calabria. In the largest operation of its kind in recent years, 3,000 police in Calabria and several parts of the wealthy north of Italy made arrests for mafia association, murder, arms offences ...