ROME - Italian prosecutors say a fugitive Calabrian mob boss wanted for trial in Italy has been arrested in Canada.
Prosecutor Nicolo Gatteri says Giuseppe Coluccio was arrested Thursday outside the luxury lakeside apartment building where he has been living in Toronto.
Coluccio has been a fugitive since 2005 when he fled a trial alleging he ran a mob organization that controlled maritime traffic along a 60-kilometre stretch of the Calabrian coast.
He was arrested on charges of Mafia association and extortion and was being held pending extradition.
Gatteri says a hearing will be held in three days.
Canada's Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day issued a statement praising the country's immigration taskforce for their investigation and arrest of Coluccio.
