Mafia Boss Busted Through Facebook

Police nabbed an infamous Italian mafia boss with the help of Facebook. Pasquale Manfredi had been logging into the social network for months under the name Scarface.
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Police nabbed an infamous Italian mafia boss with the help of Facebook. Pasquale Manfredi had been logging into the social network for months under the name Scarface. Manfredi was on Facebook so often that the Police were eventually able to track his IP address and capture the boss, who had been on the run for months.

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