{"id":113668,"date":"2026-02-14T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:38:09","slug":"a-fugitive-on-the-run-for-years-is-arrested-when-he-turns-up-at-the-olympics-to-watch-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113668\/","title":{"rendered":"A fugitive on the run for years is arrested when he turns up at the Olympics to watch hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (AP) \u2014 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics<\/a>, 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 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 months and 7 days, according to the carabinieri, Italy\u2019s military police.<\/p>\n<p>The man did not manage to see the opening game in which <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milan-olympics-hockey-slovakia-sweden-ca13351253c2accc35408eccf565e7b7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slovakia\u2019s hockey team beat Finland with a sound 4-1<\/a> at Milan\u2019s Santagiulia Arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME (AP) \u2014 A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[39509,54279,53122,178,180,179,54280,39254],"class_list":{"0":"post-113668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-2026-olympics","9":"tag-fugitive-captured","10":"tag-milan-cortina-olympics","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-slovak-hockey-team","15":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}