Alessandra Tarantino / AP
ROME
- Police in Italy and the United States have broken up a major
organized crime network made up of powerful mafia clans plotting to
smuggle huge amounts of illegal drugs and weapons, officials said on
Tuesday.
Officers on both sides
of the Atlantic worked together in what they called an "unprecedented"
two-year operation involving wiretaps and undercover officers
penetrating deep into the heart of the alleged network, American and
Italian officials said at a press conference in Rome.
Seventeen
people in Italy and seven in New York were arrested in coordinated
sweeps just after 7 p.m. ET on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of U.S.
dollars in cash were also recovered in the raids.
"We
realized the 'Ndrangheta wanted to create a bridge with the U.S. to
move narcotics across the ocean," U.S. magistrate Marshall Miller said,
referring to the powerful criminal organization in Calabria, Italy.
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