Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Two Mafia fugitives have been captured in Colombia because of sloppy mistake and are accused of building a cocaine pipeline to Europe. But instead of going quietly, the boss offered narcos mercenaries $700,000 to bust him out of prison. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here with news of the surprising careless mistakes these mobsters made that helped police zero in on them 6,000 miles from home, what they were doing there — and the daring, fire-and-blood plan for escape.
They say that ‘every villain has a vice that brings them down’ and that is often true. It sure is in this case. One fugitive trafficker for the Camorra Mafia in Italy was betrayed by his love of playing pool and the other by posting selfies from Pablo Escobar’s grave side.
Gustavo Nocella was arrested first in a raid by commandos. Next came his boss, Luigi Belvedere. Both were living in elegant apartments in the ritzy part of the city of Medellin, Colombia, a city that was once the heart of Pablo Escobar’s empire.
The 58-year-old Nocella was known by the nickname “Ermes,” and considered an important intermediary within the Camorra, which is one of the main Mafia organizations of Italy, which sits alongside Cosa Nostra and the ‘Ndrangheta in Italy’s organized crime tradition.
Luigi Belvedere, 32, was also greeted inside his home by commandos. He’d been on the run from authorities in Italy for four years and was on Italy’s list of 100 most wanted fugitive. He was handed his final prison sentence this past June: Just short of 19 years.
Authorities allege they coordinated large-scale shipments of Colombian cocaine to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, often hidden in maritime cargo. From there much of it was hauled by truck to Italy’s south, into the hands of Camorra Mafia clans.
They are expected to be extradited to Italy.
CREDITS:
Music is Science Montage by Jeremy Blake // Decimate by Jeremy Blake // Dark Zephyr by Audio Hertz;
Bogota aerial video by Alejo Turola, Pool videos by cottonbro studio, Medellin drone video by Franklin Eduardo, Naples aerial video by Kelly, Medellin houses video by Esteban Zuluaga, all at Pexels;
Some street views from Google Street View; Pablo Escobar photo by Ghazi777755 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110110591; Escobar graffiti photo by nigel burgher - flickr.com/photos/134672109@N08/31499028983/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62658386; Triunfo el estado photos by Motero colombia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46347515; Pablo grave marker from TripAdvisor, Caserta palace interior photo by Tango7174 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17484348; Palace exterior by By Carlo Pelagalli, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52612424; Jennifer Melfi photo by HBO; Glock photo by Askild Antonsen CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82534411; Revolver photo by Jeff dean at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2846372; Multi handguns by Joshuashearn - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5528299.
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Two Mafia fugitives have been captured in Colombia because of sloppy mistake and are accused of building a cocaine pipeline to Europe. But instead of going quietly, the boss offered narcos mercenaries $700,000 to bust him out of prison. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here with news of the surprising careless mistakes these mobsters made that helped police zero in on them 6,000 miles from home, what they were doing there — and the daring, fire-and-blood plan for escape.
They say that ‘every villain has a vice that brings them down’ and that is often true. It sure is in this case. One fugitive trafficker for the Camorra Mafia in Italy was betrayed by his love of playing pool and the other by posting selfies from Pablo Escobar’s grave side.
Gustavo Nocella was arrested first in a raid by commandos. Next came his boss, Luigi Belvedere. Both were living in elegant apartments in the ritzy part of the city of Medellin, Colombia, a city that was once the heart of Pablo Escobar’s empire.
The 58-year-old Nocella was known by the nickname “Ermes,” and considered an important intermediary within the Camorra, which is one of the main Mafia organizations of Italy, which sits alongside Cosa Nostra and the ‘Ndrangheta in Italy’s organized crime tradition.
Luigi Belvedere, 32, was also greeted inside his home by commandos. He’d been on the run from authorities in Italy for four years and was on Italy’s list of 100 most wanted fugitive. He was handed his final prison sentence this past June: Just short of 19 years.
Authorities allege they coordinated large-scale shipments of Colombian cocaine to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, often hidden in maritime cargo. From there much of it was hauled by truck to Italy’s south, into the hands of Camorra Mafia clans.
They are expected to be extradited to Italy.
CREDITS:
Music is Science Montage by Jeremy Blake // Decimate by Jeremy Blake // Dark Zephyr by Audio Hertz;
Bogota aerial video by Alejo Turola, Pool videos by cottonbro studio, Medellin drone video by Franklin Eduardo, Naples aerial video by Kelly, Medellin houses video by Esteban Zuluaga, all at Pexels;
Some street views from Google Street View; Pablo Escobar photo by Ghazi777755 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110110591; Escobar graffiti photo by nigel burgher - flickr.com/photos/134672109@N08/31499028983/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62658386; Triunfo el estado photos by Motero colombia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46347515; Pablo grave marker from TripAdvisor, Caserta palace interior photo by Tango7174 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17484348; Palace exterior by By Carlo Pelagalli, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52612424; Jennifer Melfi photo by HBO; Glock photo by Askild Antonsen CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82534411; Revolver photo by Jeff dean at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2846372; Multi handguns by Joshuashearn - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5528299.
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