ROME — Genoa Carabinieri said they arrested Marco Macor, one of the two tighty-whitey-clad shooters in Matteo Garrone’s 2008 Gomorra, for allegedly posing as law enforcement to defraud vulnerable citizens. 

 Prosecutors allege that Macor was part of a 30-man crime ring responsible for more than 50 scams around Italy. They said that under the supervision of his ringleader brother Alberto, Macor, 39, trawled the peninsula for easy targets. 

 After finding one, a 90-year-old Venetian woman, in April 2023, Macor allegedly called the woman pretending to be a lawyer. He told her that her son had been arrested for causing an accident. Police said Macor convinced the Venetian she had to post her son’s 12,000EUR bail. 

 Outfitted as a Carabiniere, Macor then paid his victim a house call, police said. They allege that he left the old woman's home with 800EUR cash, two pairs of earrings, a necklace, a crucifix chain, a Citizen watch, and three silver coins. 

 Highway traffic police stopped Macor a few hours after he allegedly made off with his loot. The Gomorra actor attributed the cash on his person to his work as a traveling sock salesman, police said.

 Macor’s rap sheet includes prior convictions for elder fraud, wire fraud, robbery, conspiracy to commit property crimes. “He does not work, and lives only on the proceeds of crimes,” Genoa prosecutors alleged in a statement.

 The Neapolitan is one of a gaggle of nonprofessional Gomorra actors who have run afoul of the law since the blockbuster’s release. 

 Fellow cast members Salvatore Abbruzzese, Salvatore Russo, Nicola Battaglia, Bernardino Terracciano, Pjamaa Azize, Giovanni Venosa, and Vincenzo Sacchettino have been convicted on deaing, extortion, and double homicide charges. 

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