The pale and aging Italian man bundled into a police car today was a far cry from the ruthless "playboy" mobster who once bragged about "filling a cemetery by himself".
The head of Sicily's nefarious Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, was taken into custody today after Italy's mafia task force spent three decades scouring the earth for him, only to find him waiting to undergo cancer treatment in Palermo.
In a police photo showing him sitting in a van, Messina Denaro was wearing a brown leather jacket and white skull cap and his trademark tinted glasses. His face looked wan.
