Police Chief Themistos Arnaoutis ordered an administrative investigation into the circumstances surrounding the escape of an 18-year-old defendant from Syros from the police van that was transporting him to theLarnaca Magistrates’ Court to continue legal proceedings against him in connection with a theft case.
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Kyriakos Theodorou, a spokesperson for the Police Headquarters Press Office, stated that the young defendant was in a specially equipped police vehicle, a so-called “cage,” from which he managed to escape around 12:15 p.m.
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Significant police forces were immediately mobilized and conducted searches and investigations, both on the courthouse grounds and in the surrounding area, to locate him.
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At around 2:20 p.m., members of the Bicycle Police who were on patrol in the center of Zeno City located the 18-year-old fugitive and handcuffed him, based on an arrest warrant issued earlier against him.
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