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On The Run Mobster Captured


Steve

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Wasn't sure if this should be in the USA thread (apologies if so, move it if necessary) but I found it interesting. Its life imitating art almost. Many movies about mobsters in hiding in rural places.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_us/us_crime_family_feud

 

Feds: Mobster fugitive captured in rural IdahoMARSING, Idaho – For more than a decade, the vast farm fields of rural southwestern Idaho provided Enrico Ponzo the isolation he needed to hide from his past as a former New England mobster accused of trying to whack his boss.

 

He introduced himself to his neighbors as Jeffrey Shaw, a man who went by the nickname "Jay." He paid for everything in cash. He bought his house in his girlfriend's name.

 

But his past proved a stubborn companion.

 

Ponzo couldn't hide his vaguely New York accent. He couldn't keep his stories straight. He couldn't hide his expertise with a gun during a trip to the local shooting range. And in a community where Ponzo was surrounded by wide open ranch land, his neighbors could tell he didn't know anything about farming.

 

The past Ponzo tried to bury finally came calling this week, when federal agents arrived at a subdivision in Marsing and shattered the life he had so carefully crafted.

 

In a federal courtroom Wednesday, Ponzo pulled the mask off Jeffrey Shaw...

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