Calzone Rage Gets Pizzeria Owner Hard Time

10 years behind bars for former mafioso who disagreed with "the customer is always right"

The former owner of a Florida pizzeria who attacked customers who complained about their calzone orders will be spending the next decade behind bars.

Joseph Milano, 42, was sentenced to ten years in prison last week by a Flagler County judge for possession of a firearm by a felon.

Milano was arrested last January at Goomba's, his Palm Coast pizzeria, after he reportedly beat and pistol-whipped two men who didn't like their calzones.

The start of shocking beatdown was caught on the pizzeria's surveillance camera, and shows a man identified as Milano leaping over the counter to get at the customers.

After his arrest, police found out that Milano is really Joseph Calco - a former mob hit man who now works in the federal witness protection program.

Proving that once in the mafia, always in the mafia, Calco aka Milano said he did not believe he did anything criminal and that he had the gun for protection.

He added that he was worried the media attention would alert his "old friends" to his whereabouts.

"And if those people knew, they would put me through a wood chipper," Milano said.

Copyright AP - Associated Press
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