They arrest a woman in Lanzarote claimed by the US for fleeing with her daughter | BE Lanzarote

Agents of the Organized Crime Group of the Provincial Brigade of Judicial Police of the National Police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife have arrested a woman, of Australian origin, and claimed by the United States of America after fleeing this country with her youngest daughter approximately one year, thus committing a crime of child abduction.

The arrest took place after the American police authorities, through the Interpol Spain Office, informed the National Police that after approximately a year since the father and mother of the minor had divorced by law, she fled with her daughter through Mexico and Bogotá (Colombia), to Madrid (Spain).

Likewise, they indicated that mother and daughter could be hidden in one of the Canary Islands, according to the National Police in a press release.

The agents then took the corresponding steps that allowed them to find out and locate the fugitive, her daughter and her mother in Lanzarote, which is why the agents traveled to the island to locate and detain the woman claimed by the United States.

Although to be able to stop her, the agents had to establish a device, since the woman lived in an urbanization difficult to access and exclusive for the residents of the same, although at dawn on the second day the acting agents observed how the fugitive, in company of the girl, they go to the vehicle they own, so after fully identifying themselves and informing her of the events that motivated the police intervention, she was taken, along with her daughter, to the Arrecife Local Police Station.

For all this, the mother was detained and at the disposal of the Central Court of Instruction of the National High Court, while the minor was protected by transferring her to a Center for the Protection of Minors in Lanzarote.

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