{"id":296600,"date":"2026-02-13T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296600\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:54:14","slug":"man-on-run-for-16-years-arrested-after-turning-up-for-olympics-ice-hockey-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/296600\/","title":{"rendered":"Man on run for 16 years arrested after turning up for Olympics ice hockey match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested when he turned up in Milan to support his national ice hockey team at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old man, who was not named, was wanted by Italian authorities for a series of thefts committed in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The carabinieri managed to track down and arrest the man on Wednesday after he checked into a campsite in the outskirts of Milan, thanks to an automatic alert from the campsite reception.<\/p>\n<p>The fugitive was then taken to Milan\u2019s San Vittore prison to serve a pending sentence of 11 month and 7 days, the carabinieri said.<\/p>\n<p>The man did not manage to see the opening game in which Slovakia\u2019s hockey team beat Finland with a sound 4-1 at Milan\u2019s Santagiulia Arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested when he turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-296600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}