Here is an early arrest of his from 1974. This is from The NYTimes...


Italy Charges 24 In Major Smuggling Of Heroin Into U.S.
March 29, 1974

ROME, March 28—A coin laundry in a Roman suburb was the cover for the operations center of a Mafia ring that had been smuggling large shipments of heroin to the United States, court officials say.
An investigating magistrate has issued 24 warrants for alleged members of the gang. Four of those charged with drug trafficking and related crimes are in United States penal institutions.
Seven persons were arrested in Rome and Palermo while five warrants were served on alleged mafiosi who are in Italian jails on other charges. Eight wanted persons have disappared; and Italy has asked Interpol, the international police organization, to trace them.
The court actions followed 30 months’ investigative work by United States and Italian police agencies. The inquiry started in September, 1971, when American customs agents seized 200 pounds of heroin, then worth $40?million, in a Ford Galaxie with New York license plates that had been taken into the United States aboard the Italian liner Raffaello.
The auto was the property of Joseph Giacomazzo, a 38?year?old native of Sicily, who is one of the four in prison in the United States who are wanted by the Rome Criminal Court. The three others are Lorenzo D'Aloisio, 37, and Francesco Rappa, 32, both Sicilian?born, and Richard Verdin, 35, a native of France.
[In Washington, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration said that the three men had been jailed in the 1971 case.]
About 750 people, including reputed mafiosi, were questioned during the inquiry. The records fill 100,000 pages.
According to police sources here, the boss of the international ring was Gerlando Alberti, a 47?year?old Sicilian who has been implicated in many other Mafia rackets. He is in the Palermo jail awaiting trial On charges of criminal conspiracy unconnected with the drug case.