A Woodbridge pizza parlor owner wanted in Italy in the slaying of a
Sicilian judge was ordered deported by an Immigration and Naturalization
Service judge yesterday.
At a five-hour hearing at INS offices in Arlington, Salvatore
Inzerillo, a part-owner of Joe's Place on Rte. 1, acknowledged entering
the United States illegally from Canada but asked to be allowed to leave
the country voluntarily.
Judge Joan V. Arrowsmith denied the request, saying this would allow
Inzerillo to go to the country of his choice. She said he should be
returned to Italy for trial.
Arrowsmith characterized Inzerillo's testimony as suspicious and said
his activities in the United States "appear to be consistent with a
person who is laying low."
Inzerillo, 31, has been in INS custody since Feb. 23. Italian
authorities have issued an arrest warrant for him in the 1980 slaying of
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Judge Gaetano Costa, who was investigating drug trafficking in Sicily.
FBI and INS officials had sought the deportation, arguing that
Inzerillo is a member of the "Inzerillo-Spatola-Gambino-DiMaggio" crime
"You're born into it and you frequently marry the daughter of another
Mafia member, as he did," FBI agent James L. Glass Jr. said of
Inzerillo. "In his case, he married the daughter of a Mafia boss."
Inzerillo's father-in-law is also a fugitive from drug-trafficking
charges in Italy, Glass said.
Inzerillo, testifying through a translator, denied being a member of
the Mafia and said he is not a drug dealer. He said he hired a smuggler
to get him into the United States in 1981 to seek work.
Inzerillo said he worked in pizza parlors in the Philadelphia area
before buying a share in Joe's Place. He also is part-owner of a
sandwich shop in Richmond, he said.
Stanton Braverman, Inzerillo's attorney, said his client is being
found guilty by association. "That's all they're pointing out," he said.
Braverman said the deportation ruling will be appealed.
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