[real-eyes] Re: Spanish police arrest the fax escape man
- From: &Ruthie <clark.ruthie@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:25:07 -0500
OMG this is freaking hilarious!
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On 4/2/2011 9:04 AM, Steven Clark wrote:
> I think this is funny.
> Steve
>
>
> MADRID (AP) - Spanish police say they have arrested a man who twice
> escaped from
> custody by having his wife send fake faxes ordering his release.
> Fifty-seven-year-old Jose Carlos Serna was taken into custody at his
> home in San
> Lorenzo del Escorial, a suburb north of Madrid, on Friday, while hiding
> in a hollowed-out
> sofa, police said.
> In December, he was in a cell at Arganda del Rey courthouse awaiting
> trial when officers
> got a fax purportedly from a regional court. It was followed by a phone
> call purportedly
> from a court official, corroborating the release order.
> Officers tried to verify the order, but their calls went unanswered.
> When they received
> a second call confirming Serna's release, he was freed to a waiting
> taxi. Both calls
> came from his wife, Gema Maria Serna, whom police tracked down to a
> house in the
> northern suburb and arrested on March 3.
> It was not the first time Serna used the trick on police. He escaped
> from Valdemoro
> jail in October using the same tools.
> He had been in prison for heading a gang that in 2008 kidnapped a
> Spanish businessman
> and held him captive in the southern Portuguese beach resort area of the
> Algarve.
> Since his last escape Serna had rented several houses, including the
> heavily fortified
> suburban home where he was arrested.
> Police said Serna had equipped the house with reinforced window
> protection and a
> secret entrance that could not be easily detected or approached. He had
> also hired
> a number of men to drive him around while pretending to be an Italian
> university
> professor.
> Officers broke in through a skylight to find Serna hidden, the police
> statement said.
> © 2011 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
>
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