On Thursday morning, the police carried out a large police operation in Vinterbro in the hunt for the wanted Stig Millehaugen.
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Of acted at an address, but no one has been arrested, confirms operations manager Jon Erik Nygård to VG.
– The police have finished on the spot, he says at 08.20.
The police confirm that the action is related to the search for Stig Millehaugen.
According to the police, they carried out a search of a residence belonging to an acquaintance of the wanted 53-year-old in Viken county. They write in a press release that they “had information that gave reason to believe that he could stay there”, without elaborating further.
The police sounded the national alarm when Stig Millehaugen was absent after a leave from Trondheim prison. He was on leave from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. but never met up again in prison.
According to VG’s information, the police believe that the 53-year-old must have gotten on a plane from Trondheim Airport Værnes to Oslo Airport Gardermoen on Wednesday morning. Information the police are supposed to have indicates that Millehaugen went on to Oslo.
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A man who has previously had an employment relationship with Millehaugen, lives in the area where the police acted in Vinterbro, and confirms that the police were with him on Thursday morning.
– They said they were looking for Millehaugen, I think they do that in many places, he says to VG.
He does not want his name in print.
– The whole thing has a background in that I know him, the man says, and adds that it is because they have had an employment relationship for a period several years ago when the man convicted of murder was out.
According to the man, the police knocked on the door and spent some time in the house. He describes everyone in the police as very nice and professional.
He emphasizes that he has not had contact with Millehaugen and understood it so that the police go broad.
– I have no relationship with Millehaugen, but understand that they want to get hold of him. I guess they go very wide.
–Thursday morning, Millehaugen was to be found Interpol’s website as requested from Norway. The organization for international police cooperation provides detailed descriptions of Millehaugen’s appearance, and also mentions what he has been convicted of.
according to a judgment of 2002 Millehaugen has escaped at least three times before.
- Millehaugen escaped from Berg district prison in July 1992 where he was sentenced for aggravated robbery.
- When he was remanded in custody for these new robberies, he escaped from Sarpsborg prison in December 1992.
- In October 2000, he was absent from leave at Ullersmo National Prison and escaped with his girlfriend. He was first arrested in June 2001.
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Millehaugen has been in prison all his adult life after being convicted of car thefts, burglary and armed robbery.
In 2012, he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the law’s most severe punishment, for premeditated murder of Young Guns leader Mohammad “Jeddi” Javed. The minimum term was set at ten years.
Millehaugen has always denied criminal guilt.
He has served about ten years in Trondheim prison. Prison manager Egil Gabrielsen informed VG on Wednesday night that Millehaugen has completed several leave before, and that these have proceeded as normal.
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