[1] Macrì is considered to be one of the main brokers of cocaine for the Commisso 'ndrina in Siderno, in charge of managing the drug trafficking routes between Europe and Latin America.
[1] He spent 13 years in prison in the United States of America, since his arrest in Wilmington, (Delaware) on 18 July 1989 with 3 pounds of heroin, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges for international drug trafficking.
[5] Due to major logistics hubs such as the port of Rotterdam and Schiphol airport, the Netherlands is an important gateway for cocaine smuggling to Europe.
[5] According to the Brazilian federal police, Macri was part of an international criminal organization that imported and trafficked cocaine and hashish, from Morocco, the Netherlands and the Dominican Republic.
[9]) Macrì became a fugitive, but was arrested at the international airport of São Paulo (Brazil) on 9 June 2017, while on his way to Caracas in Venezuela, where he had been living for some time using a false identity.