Car Wash Attendant
At one time he claimed he was a simple car wash attendant. According to police, he controlled one of the largest drug dealing networks in the world. The officer in charge of the investigation, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Ben Soave, said "If organized crime was a hockey game, Mr. Caruana would be Gretzky." Caruana pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to import and traffic some 1,500 kilograms of cocaine and was sentenced to 18 years by the Ontario Superior Court in February 2000.
In November 2004, a Canadian court ordered that he be sent back to Italy to face jail time. In Italy, Caruana, faces a sentence of almost 22 years, likely to be served in solitary confinement. The sentence stems from a 1996 trial in Palermo and subsequent appeals. In June 2007, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Caruana to be sent back to Italy to face jail time. On December 20, 2007, Caruana's efforts to appeal were dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada. He was extradited to Italy on January 29, 2008.
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