Editing Tommaso Buscetta (section)

==First arrest==
After the [[Ciaculli Massacre]] in 1963, part of an internal Mafia conflict known as the [[First Mafia War]], he was wanted by the police. Buscetta fled to Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, and finally, the United States.<ref name="autogenerato1">[http://www.piolatorre.it/public/a_sud_europa/a_sud_europa_anno-7_n-26.pdf Tratto da "ASud'Europa", settimanale realizzato dal Centro di Studi e iniziative culturali “Pio La Torre”]</ref> In 1968, Buscetta was convicted ''[[Trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' by an Italian court of two [[murder]]s related to the Ciaculli Massacre.<ref name=inc>{{cite book |author1=Andre Cedilot|author2=Andre Noel|date=2010 |title=Mafia Inc. |location=Toronto |publisher=Vintage Canada |isbn=978-0-307-36041-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7qlDG1KaiAC&q=1968+Buscetta+double+murder&pg=PA89}}</ref>

On 25 August 1970, Buscetta was arrested in [[Brooklyn]], New York, but was released on 4 December 1970.<ref name=firstarrest>{{Cite news|url=http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg14/lavori/documentiparlamentari/indiceetesti/023/016t02_RS/00000036.pdf|title=Senato della Repubblica XIV LEGISLATURA Documenti|language=it}}</ref> On 21 July 1971, an arrest warrant was issued by Italian police.<ref name=firstarrest/> Buscetta moved to [[Brazil]], having undergone [[plastic surgery]] and vocal cord surgery,<ref name="autogenerato2"/> he set up a [[drug trafficking]] network, but on 3 November 1972, was arrested by the [[Brazilian military government]], and subsequently extradited to Italy exactly one month later where he began a ten-year sentence at Palermo's Ucciardone prison for drug trafficking, reduced to eight years after appeal.<ref name=firstarrest/><ref name="autogenerato2"/> He was later transferred to the Le Nuove prison in [[Turin]].<ref name="autogenerato2"/>