A 67-year-old Italian man with an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking and murder charges has been arrested in Arrecife after living on the island for 15 years under a fake identity.
The 67-year-olds true identity and location was made known to the Arrecife local police stopped him on his motorcycle in a routing traffic stop and found he had no driver’s license and false Italian identification.
Arrecife local police then collaborated with the National Police to identify that he had an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking and murder.
The arrest warrant had been issued in 2019 for events that occurred between 1988 – 1995. The 67-year-old is accused of belonging to a drug trafficking organisation and of participating in a murder with the use of a firearm in Italy.
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