Meanwhile in Siracusa:

* Arrest warrants issued for 18 people (15 of whom are now in custody) - all members of a clan called Linguanti, which was based in Cassibile - a small village about 18km south of Siracusa city.
* The clan dominated organised crime in the town and members were arrested on charges of mafia association aimed at committing murders, the transport and sale of drugs, extortion (aggravated damages), weapons charges, and controlling gambling.
* Four of the arrest warrants were for people already under arrests.
* The Linguanti clan appears to be independent and I curently cannot find evidence they ae linked to the Santapaolo family.
* The names of those arrested are: Antonino Linguanti, 47 (the clan leader - already in custody) , Salvatore Battaglia, 39 (already in custody), Nunzio Salafia, 63, (called "the patriarch" and already in custody), Giuseppe Olanda, 25 (already in custody), Giuseppe Floridia, 34, Antonino Fabio, 45, Leonardo Vicario, 29, Salvatore Galiffi, 35, Massimo Galiffi, 25, Mirko Giacona, 27, Ignazio Buffa, 22, Francesco Campanella, 25 and Emanuele Cappello 22. Still to be arrested are Giuseppe D'Alterio, 27, Vincenzo Agricola, 29, Paolo Sciuto, 37, Armando Selvaggio, 29 and Vincenzo Morale, 45.