On the run for the past 20 years after escaping from a prison in Italy, a mafia member was captured last month after being seen in a Google Maps image in Spain.
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The italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that Gioacchino Gammino, 61, was apprehended by Spanish police on December 17 in Galapagar, a town north of Madrid.
A 2018 Google Maps snapshot of Gammino speaking to another man outside a small fresh food store in Galapagar led investigators to the fugitive.
According to La Repubblica, Gammino was a member of the Sicilian Mafia group Stidda and escaped from a prison in Rome in 2002, a year before being sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder.
La Repubblica indicates that Gammino ran a restaurant in Galapagar, where he lived under a false name.
According to Reuters, Gammino is awaiting his extradition to Italy.