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 wanted by the United States of America after fleeing from this country with her minor daughter approximately one year ago, thus committing a crime of child abduction.
The arrest occurred after the American police authorities, through the Spanish Interpol Office, informed the National Police that after approximately one year since the father and mother of the minor were legally divorced, she fled with her daughter through Mexico and Bogotá (Colombia), to Madrid (Spain).
Likewise, they indicated that mother and daughter could be hiding in one of the Canary Islands, as reported by the National Police in a press release.
Subsequently, the agents carried out the corresponding procedures that allowed them to know and locate the fugitive, her daughter, and the mother of the former in Lanzarote, which is why the agents traveled to the island to locate and arrest the woman wanted by the USA.
However, in order to arrest her, the agents had to establish a device, since the woman lived in an urbanization with difficult access and exclusive to the residents of the same, although in the early morning of the second day, the acting agents observed how the fugitive, in the company of the girl, was heading to the vehicle of her property, so, after fully identifying themselves and informing her of the facts that motivated the police intervention, she was taken, together with her daughter, to the Local Police Station of Arrecife.
Therefore, the mother was arrested and placed at the disposal of the Central Court of Instruction of the National Court, while the minor was protected by transferring her to a Child Protection Center in Lanzarote.
