
Fugitives
Update: US Marshals sought man for felony warrants
The Latest on fatal police shooting in Memphis (all times local):3:30 a.m.A spokeswoman with the Tennessee Borough of Investigation says U.S. Marshals went to a home in Memphis to look for a man with felony warrants before the suspect was fatally shot.Authorities maintain a perimeter around the crime scene after ...
No sign of fugitive who sought Facebook likes to surrender
Police in Connecticut say a fugitive has so far failed to honor an agreement to surrender once enough people responded positively to his wanted poster on social media.Torrington police say Jose Simms has seven arrest warrants and is being sought as a fugitive after failing to appear in court on ...
Longtime ETA fugitive Josu Ternera arrested in France
A longtime chief of the Basque separatist militant group ETA who had been on the run for 17 years was arrested Thursday in the French Alps region, Spain's Interior Ministry said.José Antonio Urruticoetxea Bengoetxea, known by the alias Josu Ternera, has been the most wanted ETA member since 2002. Interpol, ...
Fugitive UK man wanted in speedboat death extradited
A British man wanted for the manslaughter of a woman who died when his speedboat crashed while they were on a date in London has been extradited from Georgia.Jack Shepherd, 31, jumped bail before his trial, where he was found guilty of killing 24-year-old Charlotte Brown in the crash on ...
Court in Georgia rules to extradite fugitive Brit
A fugitive British man wanted for the manslaughter of a woman killed during a London date on a speedboat is to be extradited from Georgia, a court ruled Tuesday.Jack Shepherd, 31, vanished while on bail over the manslaughter of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown, who died when his speedboat hit a log ...
UK judge denies bail to fugitive Indian diamond tycoon
Diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, whose jewels once adorned stars from Bollywood to Hollywood, was ordered held without bail in London on Wednesday, more than a year after Indian authorities alleged he was involved in a $1.8 billion bank fraud.A judge remanded Modi into custody at the end of a Westminster ...
Bosnian most-wanted fugitive shot dead after massive manhunt
Bosnia police on Tuesday shot and killed the country's most-wanted fugitive, who had been sought in the slayings of a police officer and another person, after a huge manhunt.Edin Gacic died after a shootout with police near the capital Sarajevo, police said. A policeman was slightly wounded in the shootout, ...
Macedonia’s fugitive ex-PM claims he feared for his life
Former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who dominated politics in his country for a decade and is now a fugitive from justice, says he fled to Hungary fearing for his life.Gruevski, 48, turned up at the Hungarian embassy in Tirana, Albania, last November, requesting asylum hours before he was due ...
Georgia to keep British fugitive behind bars for 3 months
A court in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia has ruled to keep a fugitive British man for three months behind bars pending possible extradition.Jack Shepherd has fled Britain while on bail over the manslaughter of a 24-year-old woman who died when Shepherd's speedboat hit a log and flipped on the ...
Update: Italian fugitive arrives in Rome on plane
The Latest on Italian fugitive captured in Bolivia (all times local):11:45 a.m.A left-wing Italian militant who was convicted of murder three decades ago has arrived in Rome to serve a life prison sentence, after his life as a celebrity fugitive came to an abrupt end with his arrest in Bolivia ...
Italian fugitive heads home to serve life term for murder
A left-wing Italian militant who was convicted of murder three decades ago is heading home to serve a life sentence, after his life as a celebrity fugitive came to an abrupt end with his arrest in Bolivia by a team of Interpol agents.Cesare Battisti was handed over to Italian custody ...
Italy sends plane to Bolivia to get seized fugitive Battisti
Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday to pick up fugitive communist militant Cesare Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after he was convicted of murder. The development sets the stage for a climax to one of Italy's longest-running efforts to bring a fugitive to justice.Bolivian ...
Police: Fugitive in Vegas manicurist death found in Arizona
Police say a 21-year-old woman sought for almost two weeks after allegedly skipping out on a $35 manicure and using a stolen car to run over and kill a manicurist in Las Vegas has been arrested in Arizona.Las Vegas police say Krystal Whipple was arrested Friday in the Phoenix suburb ...
Greek police hunt for 2 fugitives who escaped prison
Greek police have launched a manhunt for two inmates who escaped from Greece's largest prison at Korydallos, west of Athens, apparently by cutting the bars of their cell and scaling the prison walls.Police said Wednesday the two men, brothers who were convicted of thefts and robberies, apparently escaped after the ...
Orban says Hungary to evaluate Gruevski extradition request
Hungary's prime minister says authorities will evaluate and give an opinion on the extradition request made by Macedonia for its fugitive former prime minister who has been given asylum in Hungary.In this picture taken May 12, 2011, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, left, talks to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, ...
Macedonia’s fugitive ex-PM says granted asylum in Hungary
Macedonia's fugitive former prime minister said Tuesday he has been granted political asylum in Hungary, a week after he fled his country to avoid serving a two-year jail sentence for a corruption conviction.Nikola Gruevski, prime minister from 2006 to 2016, is considered a close ally of right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister ...
Macedonia formally demands return of fugitive ex-premier
Macedonia's Foreign Ministry has summoned Hungary's ambassador to formally demand that the government in Budapest reject an asylum application by fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.The 48-year-old politician fled Macedonia and traveled to the Hungarian capital last week after police tried to arrest him to serve a two-year prison sentence ...
UK extradites fugitive tycoon to Croatia to face charges
British authorities on Wednesday extradited Ivica Todoric, the founder of a deeply indebted food and retail company, to Croatia in a case that has shaken the Balkans.A year after Todoric was detained in London on embezzlement charges, the 67-year-old landed in Zagreb on a commercial flight from London and was ...
Fugitive Romanian politician, prosecutor held in Costa Rica
A Romanian politician and a former chief prosecutor who fled to Costa Rica before they could be sentenced for crimes committed while in office have been arrested, police in the Central American country said.Former Romanian Tourism Minister Elena Udrea, who was convicted in Romania of bribery and official misconduct, was ...
Suspected upstate hospital shooter captured in Brooklyn
A fugitive suspected of firing a gun at police officers in a hospital in upstate New York has been captured in New York City.Police say 42-year-old Joshua Stuart was nabbed by U.S. Marshals in Brooklyn on Monday without incident. It happened just hours after police say he robbed a Brooklyn ...

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