 In the following years Salamone received arrest warrants for heroin trafficking and Mafia association.Sentenced to 22 years at the Maxi Trial in 1987, Salamone was sent home by the Supreme Court on the grounds of his “advanced age” and “grave state of health”, whereupon he promptly left the country to return to Brazil in 1989.On April 16, 1993, Salamone was arrested in São Paulo.