The Judicial Police has recaptured another of the five escapees from the Vale de Judeus prison, who made their getaway in September this year, this time Portuguese Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira, in Trás-os-Montes.
Read the original news item HERE: https://algarvedailynews.com/news/24056-convicted-algarve-drug-lord-escapes-prison
In a statement, the PJ explains that the operation had the collaboration of the National Republican Guard ( GNR ) and that Ferreira has an “extensive criminal career”, “especially violent crime”, but also highly organized crime, involving crimes of criminal association, homicide, kidnapping, armed robbery, drug trafficking and possession of a prohibited weapon.
He was first imprisoned in 1980. At the time of his escape, on September 7th, he was serving a 24 year prison sentence, associated with 11 convictions.
Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira was subject to an international arrest warrant issued by the competent judicial authority, which was listed as a red notice at Interpol.
The first escapee to be recaptured was Fábio Loureiro, in early October in Morocco: https://algarvedailynews.com/news/24238-algarve-drug-lord-who-escaped-prison-last-month-is-arrested-in-morocco
The escape from Vale de Judeus on Sept 7th 2024 involved five inmates. Two Portuguese citizens, Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira and Fábio Fernandes Santos Loureiro, a citizen of Georgia, Shergili Farjiani, one from Argentina, Rodolf José Lohrmann, and one from the United Kingdom, Mark Cameron Roscaleer, aged between 33 and 61.
Source https://postal.pt/
