Italian Mafia Fugitive Caught in Dominican Republic After Police Find YouTube Cooking Show (nbcnews.com) 41
Stanley Tucci's not the only one with a popular Italian cooking show, it would seem. From a report: A mafia fugitive has been arrested in the Dominican Republic after inadvertently tipping off police with his culinary hobby. After seven years on the run, Marc Feren Claude Biart was tracked down through a YouTube cooking channel he started with his wife, Italian police said in a statement. The alleged gangster's "love for Italian cuisine" -- and tattoo ink -- made his arrest possible, police said. Though he carefully hid his face, Biart failed to disguise his distinctive body tattoos, they added.
Police said they believe Biart is a member of the notorious 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate -- one of the most feared and powerful in Europe -- from the Calabria region at the toe of southern Italy's boot-shaped peninsula. He had been wanted for allegedly trafficking cocaine from the Netherlands since 2014, police said. Biart, 53, had been living in the Dominican Republic for the past five years and police said he had been keeping a low profile during his stay in the Caribbean -- besides the cooking videos posted to the internet. He was known to locals as simply "Marc" and kept his distance from the Italian community in the popular tourist destination. Lt. Col. Massimiliano Galasso, a Reggio-Calabria police official, told NBC News that authorities had never stopped searching for Biart and had recently turned to open source intelligence.
Police said they believe Biart is a member of the notorious 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate -- one of the most feared and powerful in Europe -- from the Calabria region at the toe of southern Italy's boot-shaped peninsula. He had been wanted for allegedly trafficking cocaine from the Netherlands since 2014, police said. Biart, 53, had been living in the Dominican Republic for the past five years and police said he had been keeping a low profile during his stay in the Caribbean -- besides the cooking videos posted to the internet. He was known to locals as simply "Marc" and kept his distance from the Italian community in the popular tourist destination. Lt. Col. Massimiliano Galasso, a Reggio-Calabria police official, told NBC News that authorities had never stopped searching for Biart and had recently turned to open source intelligence.
Hermitage. (Score:4, Insightful)
So in other words when trying to avoid the law become a hermit.
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Or at least wear a better disguise and hide your tattoos.
Re:Hermitage. (Score:5, Interesting)
Or you do what a friend of mine did. When she wanted to enter the adult video business, she got a few very noticeable henna tattoos. When she retired, she let them wear off. Now when people look at her and say "Aren't you ...?" she just replies. Nah. Jasmine has those big tats all over. I don't.
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I can't really tell the difference. There are some color limitations. But if you've seen prison tattoos, henna falls within the range of what would be considered 'normal' (whatever that means w.r.t. marking yourself up).
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So in other words when trying to avoid the law become a hermit.
Hold up... does that mean voluntary hermits should become criminals? Maybe the Mafia is just recruiting the wrong type of people.
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"So in other words when trying to avoid the law become a hermit."
Don't get a tattoo in the first place, this is Ndrangheta not Yakuza.
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It worked for Ted Kaczynski. If his own brother didn't turn him in he'd still be up in that shack in Montana.
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It worked for Ted Kaczynski. If his own brother didn't turn him in he'd still be up in that shack in Montana.
And the only reason his brother turned him in was because he and his wife thought they noticed some similarities in the writings [go.com] to what Ted had done in the past.
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So in other words when trying to avoid the law become a hermit.
Not only that, don't go live where expats from your own country live. Dominican Republic is a nice place to retire (if you have the $$$), but if I were an American, Canadian or Italian fugitive on the run, why go there? It's like the all-too-common tale of American fugitives running to ... Tijuana, or a British fugitive opting to hide in ... Southern Spain.
Not smart at all.
Grey man (Score:2)
Probably should have watch some YouTube videos on becoming a "Grey Man"
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Or get the hell OFF Youtube and read a book on the subject.
Police didn't "find" his cooking show (Score:3, Informative)
Police didn't just stumble across his cooking show. They were using software to process videos looking for recognizable faces and body marks like tattoos, and the software landed a hit.
Re:Police didn't "find" his cooking show (Score:4, Informative)
I doubt it? I can't imagine the Italian police have the bandwidth to sift through every single YouTube video. The article says they were alerted by his wife's YouTube activity.
Re: Police didn't "find" his cooking show (Score:1)
You can get a âoefirehoseâ connection collocated with most social networks relatively cheap. If you set filters, you can get it down to a few hundred per month. Not sure about YouTube but governments have the funding to do quite a bit.
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Does that mean that you'll finally shut the fuck up?
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Horse Head Calzones (Score:1)
"I'm cookin' a dish ya can't refuse."
Omerta (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody would talk to the police about him for years, but they were flooded with phone tips after he put ketchup on pizza in the last episode of his cooking show.
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Fat Tony's cooking school (Score:2)
Fat Tony's cooking school
Social media is bad for you (Score:4, Insightful)
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Social media is a sure sign the person is an idiot,
Says person posting on social media...
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Stanley owns a not? (Score:1)
Actualy, It's correct (Score:4, Informative)
Missed out... (Score:2)
Dang... Got me kind of interested in what kind of content he brought to the platform. Granted his troubled past is definitely problematic and should not be forgotten but nonetheless... it would have been interesting to see what kind of culinary skills he had.
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Granted his troubled past is definitely problematic and should not be forgotten but nonetheless... it would have been interesting to see what kind of culinary skills he had.
He filled a supply where there was demand and the government didn’t want people to have his product. No resources should have been spared in capturing him. A jillion dollars would have been worth it to capture him.
He’s evil.
You don’t want to eat food made by an evil.
Amateur (Score:2)
He had been wanted for allegedly trafficking cocaine from the Netherlands since 2014
Fool, if you want to traffic drugs without risking cage time, you don’t join the mob, you join a pharmaceutical company. You want law enforcement going after your victims, not after YOU.
Oh well, live and learn.
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Tattoos (Score:2)