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==Operating in Italy== [[File:Charles Lucky Luciano (Excelsior Hotel, Rome).jpg|thumb|left|Luciano at the [[The Westin Excelsior Rome|Excelsior Hotel]] in Rome, 1948]] Luciano was placed on a freighter bound for [[Genoa]]. After his secret trip to Cuba, Luciano spent the rest of his life in Italy under tight police surveillance. When he arrived in Genoa on April 11, 1947, Italian police arrested him and sent him to a jail in Palermo. On May 11, a regional commission in Palermo warned Luciano to stay out of trouble and released him.<ref name="palermo jail">{{cite news|title=Luciano Released from Palermo Jail|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/05/15/88780735.pdf|access-date=June 16, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 15, 1947}}</ref> In early July 1949, police in [[Rome]] arrested Luciano on suspicion of involvement in the shipping of narcotics to New York. On July 15, after a week in jail, police released Luciano without filing any charges. The authorities also permanently banned him from visiting Rome.<ref name="luciano rome">{{cite news|title=Luciano Freed; Barred from Rome|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/07/16/86775533.pdf|access-date=June 17, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 16, 1949}}</ref> On June 9, 1951, Luciano was questioned by Naples police on suspicion of illegally bringing $57,000 in cash and a new American car into Italy. After 20 hours of questioning, police released Luciano without any charges.<ref name="smuggling count">{{cite news|title=Luciano Questioned on Smuggling Count|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/06/10/84851544.pdf|access-date=June 17, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 10, 1951}}</ref> In 1952, the Italian government revoked Luciano's [[passport]] after complaints from U.S. and Canadian law enforcement officials.<ref name="loses passport">{{cite news|title=Luciano Loses Passport|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/07/17/84334123.pdf|access-date=June 17, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 17, 1952}}</ref> On November 1, 1954, an Italian judicial commission in Naples applied strict limits on Luciano for two years. He was required to report to the police every Sunday, to stay home every night and not to leave Naples without police permission. The commission cited Luciano's alleged involvement in the narcotics trade as the reason for these restrictions.<ref name="danger society">{{cite news|title=Luciano, 'Danger to Society', Is Ordered To Stay Home Nights in Naples for 2 Years|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/11/20/86791993.pdf|quote=Charles (Lucky) Luciano, former New York vice king, will have to stay home every night for the next two years.| access-date=June 21, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 20, 1954}}</ref>
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