The family rose to prominence when its most notorious member,
Salvatore "Totuccio" Inzerillo, became the head of the Passo di Rigano
mafia family in the 1960s. The Inzerillos were historical allies of
Stefano Bontade, and were organizers of large trafficking of morphine from the
Far East. The Inzerillos were overwhelmed in the Mafia war that exploded between 1981 and 1983 in the streets of Palermo. Salvatore died machine-gunned by a
Kalashnikov on 11 May 1981 in
Palermo. Related to the Spatola, Mannino,
Castellano,
Gambino, and Di Maggio families, they first landed in the US in 1956, settling in Cherry Hill. Their protector in the US was the boss
Carlo Gambino, Inzerillo's cousin. Gone for nearly 20 years, in early 2000 the Inzerillos were back in Palermo, and in the summer of 2007, murders in Palermo seemed to herald a new Mafia war. Currently, the head of the family is Giovanni Inzerillo. Other active members in Sicily affiliated with the family, according to a police investigation, were Giovanni Bosco, a relative of Salvatore Inzerillo; Alfonso Gambino, a trusted man and spokesperson for Bosco in negotiations with other
mandamenti; Ignazio Mannino, of the Torretta Mafia family; and Matteo Inzerillo, nephew of the boss Michelangelo La Barbera, in charge of maintaining relations with other members of the
mandamento. == References ==