Police say they tracked down mafia killer Gioacchino Gammino in the Spanish town of Galapagar after he was snapped by Google cameras standing outside a grocery shop.

They subsequently found photographs of him apparently working as a chef at a nearby restaurant and confirmed his identity based on his scar, the BBC reports.

He allegedly told officers arresting him: “How did you find me? I haven’t even called my family for 10 years.”

Mr Gammino, a member of the notorious Stidda mafia group, has been on the run since escaping a prison in Rome in 2002.