Word: montalto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine day for a Sunday drive, all right, but the men tooling up the road to Montalto, a rugged 6,417-ft. peak in the toe of the Italian boot, were hardly your average weekend motorists. Noting the stream of big cars -Pëugeots, Mercedes and Citröens-a cruising carabiniere radioed his suspicions to Police Chief Alberto Sabatino in nearby Reggio di Calabria, capital of dirt-poor Calabria province. Chief Sabatino agreed that such a caravan could mean only one thing...
Sabatino dispatched four twelve-man patrols to Montalto. The local cops and national carabinieri Jeeped to within a mile of the peak, then fanned out on foot. Climbing through oak and beech, then pine and fir, one of the carabinieri patrols suddenly flushed a man with a gun, who appeared to be some sort of sentry. Persuaded by the gun in his back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members...
...without precedent" in Calabria. The hoods did, however, steal a few lines from some distant cousins. After the famous 1957 raid at Apalachin, N.Y., the 60 mobsters who were seized there explained that they had assembled for nothing more sinister than a friendly cookout. To a man, the Montalto Mafiosi insisted that they were just "gathering mushrooms...
...Montalto disclosed that MDC police will be making reports every half hour from a call box that will soon l e installed in the middle of the bridge. "We're going to sue how this works out. Our police will be petrolling more frequently and paying more attention to the bridge," he said...
...case will go before the grand jury within two weeks and before the superior court within five weeks if the three are indicted. Montalto said he will try to get an indictment for assault with a deadly weapon at the grand jury hearing. The maximum penalty for that offense is ten years imprisonment...