The Spanish police have arrested three suspected members of the Neapolitan mafia group, the Camorra, in an operation with Italian detectives near the southern city of Malaga.

The three were found with over two hundred kilograms of hashish and nearly nine kilograms of cocaine.

The detainees include Francesco Cavallo, who'd been previously sentenced to thirteen years in prison for drugs-trafficking, and his son, Renzo, who's been on the run for nearly two years since escaping from an Italian prison hospital.

Italian police consider the Cavallo family to be among the most powerful drugs-traffickers in northern Italy.

Last month, the Spanish police arrested a Sicilian mafia leader, Pasquale Cuntrera, in the same region of southern Spain.