I’m not sure why this sort of thing is such a constant source of fascination for me, but it is:
In the summer of 2005 there was such quiet on the northern front that Neapolitans assumed Di Lauro was back in charge. This was good news rather than bad. People did not know about his loss of power, and they could not have imagined that such a man would ever have surrendered. A few months later, on September 16, 2005, he was found by the police in the simple apartment of a humble old woman who had been sheltering and feeding him for a fee. He did not resist the police or make any comment when they walked in. He seemed to have been expecting the event. When he was taken outside, he kept his head down to foil the photographers. He did not strut. He did not cower. At the station, when asked, he said no more than he had said before. “I am Paolo Di Lauro, and I am a shopkeeper.” He then fell silent, as he has been ever since.
“The Camorra Never Sleeps”
by William Langewiesche, in Vanity Fair
Also quite interesting, the excellent (if uneven) Gomorrah, by Roberto Saviano (made into an equally unsettling, bloody quasi-documentary of the same name).