A suspected Mafia leader committed suicide overnight after being arrested in a major police sweep , police in Palermo , Sicily , said on Wednesday .
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A suspected Mafia leader committed suicide overnight after being arrested in a major police sweep , <m> police </m> in Palermo , Sicily , said on Wednesday .
A suspected Mafia leader committed suicide overnight after being arrested in a major police sweep , <m> police </m> in Palermo , Sicily , said on Wednesday .
He may have been driven to suicide because wiretapped conversations between him and other Mafia bosses helped lead to the police sweep on Tuesday in which 89 people were arrested following a nine-month probe , the Ansa news agency reported .