In its long and infamous history, Italy’s Camorra crime syndicate has targeted many people who have threatened the Neapolitan gangsters’ interests. Judges, investigators, rivals have been gone after and now, according to recent reports, a nine-year-old Jack Russell terrier named Pocho.
The Times reports that during his career with the Naples police, Poncho has “sniffed out over 2 tons of illegal substances", costing the Camorra “millions of euros in illicit profits”.
The Mafia is fed up and has put a €5,000 (about R84,000) bounty on the dog’s head after having unsuccessfully tried to stop the canine hero by means of poisoned bait and even using female dogs to distract him during raids.