Police in Italy have tracked down a suspected Mafia don using Facebook.

"Pasquale Manfredi, 33, who reportedly calls himself Scarface and allegedly runs the 'Ndrangheta mafia, was captured in Calabria using intelligence gleaned from the social networking site," writes The Register's John Leyden. "Manfredi, who used the alias Georgie on Facebook, is suspected of using social networking to exchange coded instructions and stay in contact with other mobsters."

"Italian police managed to track down Manfredi to an apartment in Isola Capo Rizzuto near Crotone in southern Italy using electronic surveillance equipment," Leyden writes. "They had received a tip-off that the alleged gang-land boss was a fan of social networking."

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