A 44 year old man, with an outstanding arrest warrant for child molestation in the Azores, has at last been arrested, by police in Castro Marim in the Algarve.
The arrest warrant was issued by the Judicial Court of the Azores District, Ponta Delgada, in September 2016, due to strong evidence of the rape of “a 14 year old teenager”.
The arrest took place on Sunday, September 22 after the GNR of Castro Marim received reports of “a possible crime of sexual harassment of minors, which occurred in Castro Marim," and discrepancies were then found in the identification of the suspect.
The suspect was arrested, “verifying the existence of the aforementioned arrest warrant to serve a sentence of six years and six months for the crime of rape”, the Judiciary Police said.
The man was taken to the prison, to serve his sentence.
