Fugitive arrested in Valencia, Spain, with 15 warrants and 10 fake identities

Spain's National Police have arrested a 23-year-old Algerian man in Valencia who was wanted on 15 search and arrest warrants, three of them carrying a court order for imprisonment. An off-duty officer recognised him in the street and alerted his colleagues.

Some fugitives are caught in a spectacular operation, and others are caught because someone peine to be looking. This case belongs to the second category. On Monday afternoon, in Valencia's central Rojas Clemente square, an off-duty officer from the **National Police** recognised the suspect as he walked by and alerted his colleagues. The net closed right there, in the middle of the street.

## Fifteen warrants and three prison orders

**Riad D.** was wanted on **15 search and arrest warrants**, three of them with a court order for imprisonment. The charges stem from a wave of offences committed in recent months in **Valencia** and **San Sebastián**. He was not a suspect with a single pending case: he was a fugitive accumulating proceedings.

The arrest was not the end of the process. After the arrest, the young man was taken to the Central Duty Inspection (ICG), at the Zapadores complex, where the Scientific Police took his fingerprints and fully identified him.

## Ten identities and months on the run

The detainee had used **ten false identities** to make it harder to locate him during months of continuous evasion. Changing his name did not change his luck. Hours after being processed at Zapadores, the duty judge ordered his remand in custody, with communication and without bail, pending the numerous open cases.

Full identification was key: with fifteen warrants crossing paths, putting a name and fingerprints to the same person makes it possible to map out the judicial picture. The case is now in the hands of the courts.