How Mafia Boss used ordinary Pizza to sell $1.6billion coc@in in the US

In April 1984, federal agents arrested Pietro "Pete" Alfano, the owner of a mom-and-pop pizzeria in the small town of Oregon, Illinois.

Locals loved him for his food and because he often donned an apron and baked the pizzas himself. But few knew that Alfano was a crucial figure in an international heroin smuggling ring with ties to one of New York City's largest crime families and the Sicilian Mafia.

Known as the "Pizza Connection," this drug pipeline trafficked heroin from Palermo to the U.S. using mob-run pizza parlors as wholesale distribution centers from Long Island to Wisconsin.

In addition to Alfano, nearly 40 people were eventually arrested by federal agents in connection with this investigation. The resulting trial became the longest in U.S. history and cost an estimated $50 million to prosecute — but it resulted in a staggering 18 convictions and shut down the Mafia's Pizza Connection for good.