Authorities nab fugitive with Mafia ties in Kentucky after 2 days on the run

Mafia-related fugitive nabbed in Ky. after 2 days

VERSAILLES, Ky. — Authorities say they’ve caught a Mafia-affiliated fugitive who spent two days on the run after kicking out the door of a prison van in Kentucky.

U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Craig Smith said 37-year-old Derek A. Capozzi was captured without incident in Versailles (vur-SAYLZ’) Saturday afternoon.

Capozzi escaped from custody on Thursday. He had been in Kentucky to testify in a federal trial.

In 2005, Capozzi was identified by federal prosecutors in Massachusetts as a member of a Mafia-affiliated drug gang that killed a 19-year-old woman suspected of cooperating with investigators.

Capozzi was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for helping to dismember and hide the body. Authorities said he also was serving time for trying to kill a correctional officer.