A Mafia Fugitive is Caught When He Posts a Cooking Video on YouTube
Source - A fugitive Italian gangster's urge to show off his cooking skills has landed him in jail after seven years on the run.
Italian police tracked down Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, through the culinary videos he had uploaded to YouTube.
While he carefully hid his face, he failed to disguise his body tattoos.
The alleged member of the 'Ndrangheta crime gang was arrested in the Dominican Republic last Wednesday and has now been extradited back to Italy.
Biart had reportedly been leading a quiet life in the town of Boca Chica, police said in a statement.
He had been on the run since 2014, when he was wanted by police for allegedly trafficking cocaine into the Netherlands on behalf of the Cacciola clan of the 'Ndrangheta mafia. ...
The 'Ndrangheta is considered one of the world's most powerful organised crime groups because it controls most of the cocaine entering Europe.
Since we're all thinking the same thing, I might as well just get to the obvious pop culture reference. What tipped off the cops was this Marc Feren Claude Biart's cooking demo:
Slicing the garlic with a razor blade and adding pork into the sauce because "that's the flavor" is a dead giveaway.
With that out of the way, please don't tell us that this is what the Mafia has been reduced to. Getting caught after seven years on the lam because you just had to share that recipe for Veal Saltimbocca with the world is not the La Cosa Nostra we knew and loved. The wiseguys we grew up with would demonstrate to hide a dead body's identity by pulling out his teeth by the roots, not show you how to make Pulled Pork with root beer. They'd break your hand with a hammer if you were late on a payment, but taking a meat hammer to some cutlets was for guys in chef's hats with handle bar mustaches. You wouldn't catch a real mobster dead sharing recipes for Osso Bucco when Interpol has a warrant out for their arrest. If they were going to get pinched, it was going to be for running rackets, smuggling dope or rolling some pimp somewhere. Like men.
And the damnedest thing of it is, this guy is 53 years old. It's not like he's some product of the Mob Influencer generation, obsessed with recording all his hits for Instagram stories or showing off what brand of cigar cutter he uses for chopping off a snitch's fingers. You'd think he'd be immune to that kind of attention. Otherwise he wouldn't have survived in the business so long or stayed on the run all these years. But I guess the lure of sharing your own spin on the classic Chicken Piccata with the world was just too much for him. And ultimately it cost him his freedom. I just hope the meal was worth it. Maybe if he was teaching some other wiseguy how to cook for 20, 30 guys, Clemenza style.
Still, where's the Mafia we used to know and respect? Don't tell me it's just another once proud institution that's been ruined by the times we live in.