Fugitive member of New England mob found in Idaho

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A member of a New England mob family who went rogue and was accused of trying to kill the clan's head has resurfaced in Idaho, 17 years after he fled Massachusetts.

Enrico M. Ponzo is due Wednesday in federal court in Idaho, where he faces charges from a 1997 indictment accusing him and 14 others of racketeering, attempted murder and conspiracy to kill rivals.

Federal agents say he left Boston in 1994 and was arrested Monday in an Idaho town where he was living under an assumed name.

Ponzo is specifically charged in the 1989 attempted murder of Frank Salemme in Saugus, Mass.

Salemme, also known as "Cadillac Frank," is the former head of the Patriarca Family of La Cosa Nostra.