Derek Capozzi

A Boston wiseguy has escaped custody and is on the run.

Derek Capozzi is a 37 year old mobster from Boston, supposedly a part of the "DeCalogero Crew", said to be a drug-dealing & burglary crew aligned with the Carozza Faction within the Patriarca LCN Crime Family. I thought the Carozza was a renegade faction during the reign of Salemme, but with Robert Carozza apparently released in 2008, perhaps he's back doing things.

Anyway, the guy was convicted in '05 of being an accesory to the grisly murder of a 19 year old woman who was suspected of informing in '96. Grisly because the body was cut into little peices by Capozzi after she was strangled by another mobster.

Long story short, he was being tranferred from his cell in Kentucky to a prison in another state. During the trip, he kicked open the door of the van he was being transported in, and escaped custody somewhere near the "Kentucky 33 exit off the Blue Grass Parkway".

http://www.lex18.com/news/search-continues-for-escapee-in-woodford-county

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/nati...ntucky-20100415

And a video:
http://www.wlky.com/news/23160574/detail.html

Federal inmates are fitted with "Waist chains, leg irons and handcuffs to immobilize them", so you wouldn't think it, but apparently he was able to "slip those cuffs" (as stated in the video article)

Bit of a worry eh? Id say they'll catch him soon, but anything is possible innit?

State prisoners in Michigan during transport,etc and especially if your doing a stretch of time and our a high security risk{level 2 or above} u are bellychained and handcuffed and then leg shackled.
I dont know how he got away unless this story is a cover up to save there own ass because there is no way he could have ran away with that stuff on because i have been in the same type of legirons,belly chains,etc and u can barely take short steps without it being awkward let alone run and how could he kick a door open that on most fed/state transports the locks are on the outside and very secure.If he was snitchin they may have let there guard down and he took advantage.?
It said he was testifying.?Does that mean he was a canary?Or was he trying to help one of his cronies.?
If hes a rat he sure cant run back to his crew or other wiseguys so i dont see em being on escape long unless he changes his whole pattern,gets a job and lays low.If hes a snitch i hope he gets caught and the crime he was involved with with that young woman was pretty freakn sick-Maybe his cronies will catch up with em and deal out mobjustice.
Good news article.

& he's caught:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/17/us/AP-US-Kentucky-Inmate-Caught.html?_r=1

Apparently the guy was seen outside a Dairy Queen still wearing his prison attire. Not the sharpest tool, eh?
The report on the surveillance:
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/91269144.html

That guy was still wearing his prison duds.What a dunske.lol.
He deserved to get caught.