Setola has been on the run since last April, when he escaped the house arrest he had been granted based on a doctor's certificate that declared him virtually blind. Prosecutors are still trying to ascertain how he was let out of jail on an apparently fake infirmity.
Italian papers today have printed a photo Setola posing as an invalid, wearing dark eyeglasses and a patch over his eye and holding a cane. A witness has reportedly told prosecutors he had seen him driving a motorbike since then, calling his purported health problems into question.
Setola has avoided capture before. In November police arrested a carabinieri officer suspected of tipping off Setola about police operations. The suspected "mole" commanded a carabinieri station near Casal di Principe -- the town in the area from which the Casalesi gets its name.
In the small, abandoned-looking house in the town of Trentola Ducenta from which Setola fled Monday, police found 12,000 euros in varying-size bank notes and Setola's wife, Stefania Martinelli, whom they arrested for possession of an undeclared pistol. She was questioned all night and will appear before the judge tomorrow.
The home was reportedly piled high with trash and appeared in squalid condition. Also found in the hideaway was an anti-anxiety medication, a bottle of Cartier perfume, a book by Pope John Paul II, "Rise, Let's Be On Our Way!" with an adoring dedication from a fellow clan member, and the book "The Gold of the Camorra," an investigative book written about the Casalesi clan.
Neighbors in Trentola Ducenta questioned on Italian state TV turned their backs on a television reporter. "I don't know anything and I haven't seen anything," said one unidentified neighbor.
"Why should I care? I don't even know who he is," said one young man who was interviewed.
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