Police arrested Calabrian mafia fugitive Antonio Gallace in Spain's eastern coastal city of Valencia late on Wednesday after his relatives travelled from Italy to visit him.
Gallace, 46, did not resist his arrest at Valencia airport and congratulated police on the operation. An alleged member of the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta's Gallace clan, he had been on the run for four years.
Police tracked Gallace down after learning that members of his family were flying from the northern Italian city of Bergamo to Valencia to join him for his birthday.