Mafia

Based in Los Angeles, the Mafia is an American criminal organization that aligns itself with Mello, who seeks a notebook to seize tremendous power. The alliance is one of mutual gain: Mello taps the gang's reach and manpower while its boss, Rod Ross, gains a brilliant strategist eager to grow the syndicate's influence. Once the Kira case consumes it, the group is left disbanded.

Determined to outpace Near, Mello needs a notebook and finds his opening with Rod Ross's crew. After he eliminates a rival boss no one else could touch, he becomes a leading voice the gang heeds. The Mafia secures a notebook by kidnapping Sayu Yagami and ransoming her for the weapon, completing the trade in a desert bunker where Soichiro Yagami surrenders the notebook and the gang spirits it away aboard a radar-proof missile. With the prize in hand, Mello orders most of the SPK killed.

The shinigami Sidoh, hunting the same notebook, tracks it to the hideout and reclaims it, identifying Jack Neylon as its holder. After the gang's bullets prove useless against him, Sidoh strikes a bargain with Mello and even stands guard, stripping the helmets from a raiding party so Neylon can read their names with the Shinigami Eyes and feed them to Ross for the notebook. The gang's luck runs out once Light, as Kira, turns the recovered notebook against it. Controlling members into revealing their base, he cues the Task Force to storm in as the mafiosi drop dead, Rod Ross among them. Soichiro is fatally shot in the assault, and Mello escapes only by detonating the building.

Rod Ross, born Dwhite Gordon, heads the syndicate but defers to Mello, L's elder successor, who abandoned Wammy's House rather than play second to Near. Jack Neylon, real name Kal Snydar, becomes the notebook's owner and takes the Shinigami Eye deal. Other figures include Zakk Irius, killed by his own crew after guiding Soichiro; the veterans Glen Humphreys and Rashual Bid; the expendable Miller; Jose, who fakes death and mortally shoots Soichiro; the alias-shielded Skyer and Roy; and Y462, who handles the bunker exchange. The SPK mole Ill Ratt secretly feeds Mello information, while Greg Parker is undone by buying suspicious quantities of chocolate.