Milan police arrested Edoardo Novella, a son of the boss Carmelo, killed in an ambush on July 14, 2008. Carmelo Novella had plotted to make the Lombardy region 'Ndrangheta independent from the so-called Crimine in Calabria, and for this he was brutally killed.

Edoardo, 42, still plays a prominent organizational role according to investigators.