Alleged Mafia Hitman Gets Busted for Chatting on Facebook

Posted 03/19/2010 at 5:06am | by Paul Lilly

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Pasquale Manfredi must never have seen an episode of Sopranos. He's probably never seen Goodfellas either, or any of the Godfather movies. If he has, well, he wasn't paying very close attention then.

In just about every mafia-based flick, criminals go to great lengths to hide their dealings from the law. But not Manfredi, who was on the run from police, right up until they tracked him down based on a series of Facebook chats.

According to CNN, Manfredi, who calls himself Scarface, is being charged with multiple counts of murder, mafia associations, drugs trafficking, and possessing heavy weaponry . One of the accusations alleges Manfredi murdered a rival mafia member with a portable rocket launcher.

"Typically we think of those in the mafia as pretty meticulous in covering their tracks, and many are just shocked at the outright stupidity of this mafia suspect," CNN's Errol Barnett reports.

Barnett goes on to say that Manfredi's Facebook account is proving to be a gold mine for police, who are looking into Manfredi's more than 200 friends for other crime figures.