The GNR Valencia Criminal Investigation Unit arrested today, 19th September, in Monção, a 35-year-old man who is the subject of a European arrest warrant. After information from Spanish law enforcement counterparts the man was arrested. He did not offer any resistance.

The individual, on the run for about a year, was serving a sentence in a Penitentiary Centre in Spain, for robbery with use of firearms at jewellers which occurred in Spain.

The detainee is appearing at the Court of Guimarães.