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EXPLOSION | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
-Come on! -On the run... -Get back here! -..and over here. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
Hands out now. Hands out! | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
When foreign criminals flee their home countries, many hide out in the UK. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:14 | |
-Give me your hands. -But if they think they're safe, they're wrong. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:18 | |
They know they're wanted. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
Across Europe, there are hundreds of British criminals | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
also trying to escape justice. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
From the sun-drenched costas to the busy streets of the Dutch capital | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
this is how the police take down the fugitives... | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
-You're under arrest under the Extradition Act. -Police officer! | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
..both at home and abroad. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
On today's programme... | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
..Dutch police hunt British criminals | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
who think they've got away with it. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
The message is don't come over here | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
because you're not safe here as well. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
In Leeds, there's no place to hide for a large-scale drug dealer | 0:01:06 | 0:01:11 | |
who should be in a Polish prison. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
She brought that about, not West Yorkshire Police. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
She brought that about. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
Hi, it's police. Could you let us in? | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
And in Hereford, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
a major operation to find the men and women living life on the run. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:28 | |
We're going to take them away from their family, | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
we're going to send them back to a place where they've left | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
that they don't want to be. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
Across Europe, fugitives are on the run. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
For many Brits the destination is Amsterdam. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
In February 2011, a Dutch SWAT team were preparing to raid a house | 0:01:46 | 0:01:51 | |
in the village of Kortenhoef, just outside the capital, | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
where a British fugitive was hiding out. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
We got the information that he was here in the neighbourhood, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
that he was very violent, and maybe armed. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
EXPLOSION, GLASS SHATTERS | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
The wanted man was Sean Devalda. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Detective Chief Inspector Aaron Duggan from Greater Manchester Police | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
had been hunting for him since 2007. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
Back then the detectives were tracking a gang of armed robbers | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
from Salford, planning to hijack a cash delivery van. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
They would steal motor vehicles from people's houses during burglaries. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
The cars are then put on false plates and are used | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
in the commission of armed robberies. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
We were behind this team and we were aware of what they were up to. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
Sean Devalda formed part of this armed robbery team | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
with three others. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
In early 2007, surveillance officers were watching as members of the gang | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
driving cars they'd stolen met up in a lay-by. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
What we observed during the course of the investigation was the stolen | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
vehicles being parked up here on false plates | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
doing dry runs down into Salford | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
where the cash depot is and what we actually observed | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
was one of the stolen vehicles from here actually drive, | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
peel off behind a cash-in-transit vehicle, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
enter the M60 here at junction 19. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
The surveillance helped officers | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
work out where and when the thieves would strike. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
It also led them to one of the gang's main players. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
Sean Devalda came into the investigation late in the day. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
We only identified who he was reasonably late on. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
But we were satisfied that he was part of the team that were looking at committing commercial robberies. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:43 | |
Within weeks the gang swung into action. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
But the police too were ready and waiting to catch them in the act. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
Sean Devalda, on the day in question, was in a stolen vehicle, | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
a stolen car that was on false plates, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
and we were surveilling that vehicle. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
So, we were aware of who was in the vehicle. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
We had measures in place, should they commit a crime, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
that we could intervene, or prevent it from happening in the first place. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
As detectives tailed Devalda and his three accomplices, | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
they seemed to panic. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
They abandoned their mission, | 0:04:13 | 0:04:14 | |
speeding off into the back streets of Salford. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
For whatever reason they decided to abort on the day in question | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
and two items were discarded from the vehicle. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
In their panic the men made a crucial mistake. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
A mask and a gun were hurled from the car. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
There just happened to be a nine millimetre weapon that was loaded | 0:04:30 | 0:04:35 | |
with seven live bullets and a balaclava. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
And obviously evidence was present on the items that linked Sean Devalda to that vehicle. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
His DNA was in it, basically. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:44 | |
So we were able to put him to that item. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
Three of the gang were arrested but Devalda was more elusive. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
The armed robber had already fled from the UK. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
Now he was living the high life in the Spanish sunshine. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
He was well supported financially. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
He was living in decent accommodation. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
He was attending big pool parties | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
that cost an awful lot of money to get in. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
But he was with a number of close friends and associates of his | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
that were looking after him. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
It was time for the National Crime Agency to get involved. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:23 | |
We tried to build up a picture to see who he would be communicating with, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
or he would be frequently visiting, who would be coming visiting him... | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
Trying to get a good clear understanding of where Sean was | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
and how best we could capture him. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
Police across Europe were asked to join in the manhunt. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
It took three years before detectives in Manchester heard that Devalda had been spotted. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:48 | |
But by then he'd left Spain for Amsterdam, using false documents to conceal his identity. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:56 | |
Whilst on the run, Devalda was able to obtain a number of false | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
identities that allowed him basically to travel from Spain to Amsterdam | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
without being apprehended by the authorities. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
But Devalda didn't stay long in the city. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
His phone records soon revealed his country hideout. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
They knew that he was in a rural part of the Netherlands | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
surrounded by water, little inlets, fenced-off community, | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
so it was quite clear that they'd got a good lock on him. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
Now it was down to the Dutch police. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
We have methods to get somebody by surprise. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
Was the fugitive's run of good luck about to come to an end? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
EXPLOSION | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
West Yorkshire, with its population of over two million people, | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
has one of the busiest extradition units in the UK. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
Other than the Metropolitan Police with quite a sizeable team, | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
we in West Yorkshire have executed more European Arrest Warrants | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
than any other force in the country. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:03 | |
That's done on purpose to protect our communities. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
On the front line, it's PC Dave Lockwood and his partner PC Tom Allen's job | 0:07:09 | 0:07:15 | |
to hunt down foreign nationals wanted for committing crimes back in their native countries. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:20 | |
Tonight they have two urgent cases. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
The first is a violent man who's been on the run for three years. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
He is now thought to be hiding out in one of the UK's biggest cities. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
We are going to Leeds and we are looking for a Polish male, | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
Przemyslaw Milewski, and he's wanted for a robbery. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
Reading through it, the robbery, he's kicked him all over the body, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
used force, and hit him in order to get his mobile phone. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:54 | |
He's used threats to kill the victim and then he's actually kidnapped the | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
victim and thrown him in the boot of a Skoda Octavia and taken him to an | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
unknown location and terrorised him further. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
He's then stolen his identity card, | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
and committed a fraud by, I think, obtaining money. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
This house is the last known address for the man they're after. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
KNOCKING ON DOOR | 0:08:25 | 0:08:26 | |
Contact. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:27 | |
-Female's coming down. -Cool. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
But the woman who answers the door claims not to know him. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
We're here because we're looking for a gentleman who we believed was | 0:08:34 | 0:08:39 | |
resident at one of these two flats. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
Do you know anybody by the name of... | 0:08:43 | 0:08:44 | |
..Przemyslaw Milewski? | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
-No. -Are we OK just to come up and have a look? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
Is that OK? | 0:08:50 | 0:08:51 | |
We need to speak to this gentleman, that's all, so... | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
Rather than taking her at her word, the officers go inside | 0:08:55 | 0:09:00 | |
to search the premises. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:01 | |
She's never heard of this gentleman, she's lived here for three years. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
Looks honest, looks like she's telling the truth | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
but the connection is that she's Polish. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
Obviously the male we want is Polish. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
People do sometimes... | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
..lie and not tell us the truth. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:14 | |
So rather than just talking on the doorstep, since we're here, | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
with her permission, we're just going to have a look and make sure there's no belongings for a male. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
The trail that led them to this address seems to have gone cold. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
I think for now we're pretty much stuck on this one, aren't we? | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
We've got intelligence linking him here one month ago. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
We know for a fact he definitely lived here in 2011. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
But there's intelligence showing him as being here a month ago. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
-Move on to the next one? -Yeah. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
Thank you very much. I see your keys here. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
Are you coming down to let us out? | 0:09:46 | 0:09:47 | |
Thank you very much, love. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
The officers will never give up. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
Once there's new intelligence, the search for the man linked to this | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
address a month ago will start again. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
And with around 1,500 European criminals fleeing to the UK each year, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
there are plenty more to go after. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
The officers' next warrant is for a serious drug dealer from Poland. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
She's been part of an organised crime group producing and trafficking | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
amphet and cannabis throughout Poland. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
The sort of numbers we're talking about here is 6,000g of pure amphet. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
So, a good level. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
Later, intelligence suggests | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
this may be the Leeds home of the Polish drug dealer | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
wanted for selling amphetamines with a street value | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
of tens of thousands of pounds. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
It's the police. Can you open the door, please? | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
There's a little girl. She's about three. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
But could this woman really be the ruthless drug dealer Dave and Tom are looking for? | 0:10:46 | 0:10:51 | |
Twice a year, roads police across the UK run a special operation | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
tracking down foreign criminals using the British road network. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
Are you both known to the police at all? | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
No? | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
It's run from a hub in Birmingham | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
linking up with 12 European forces in the never-ending search | 0:11:14 | 0:11:19 | |
for the 18,000 criminals who go on the run in Europe every year. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
In Herefordshire, traffic cops Karl Lacey and Danny Evans | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
have a list of fugitives wanted abroad they need to track down. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
We're in possession of a European Arrest Warrant for a male | 0:11:33 | 0:11:38 | |
who is wanted for burglary in Lithuania. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
It's our intention to go to the address and make some enquiries. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
Hopefully if he's there we can arrest him. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
On arrival, the team of officers fan out to surround the property. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:57 | |
They know they're trying to catch a serious offender, | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
Vilius Slyzauskas, who is on the run to escape a six-year jail sentence. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:05 | |
This man was wanted. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
He'd been convicted of burglary offences of a six-year imprisonment | 0:12:07 | 0:12:12 | |
and he was currently outstanding and absconded from them. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
-Is it a flat number? -Four. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
Uh, flat two. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:22 | |
We've attended the address. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
Do the... Do their... | 0:12:24 | 0:12:25 | |
We've tried to put a cordon on the area to prevent him from escaping from the property. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:33 | |
To get past the security door, Danny employs a trick of the trade. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:38 | |
It's a communal flats. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:39 | |
We've pressed the intercom, | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
I've covered up the camera so he didn't see | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
who was on the other side of the door and he's just opened the door. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
-'Yes?' -Hi, it's police, could you let us in? | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
-Hello. -Hi. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
-Hello. -Hello, how are you? | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
-All right? -All right. Are you flat number two, are you, sir? -Sorry? -Flat number two? | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
-Yeah. -Um... | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
That's you. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:05 | |
Slyzauskas has been at large for over a year and a half. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
Have you got your passport? | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
-Vilius? -Yeah. -You're Vilius, yeah? -Yeah. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
OK, we've got him, Sarge. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:17 | |
There's an element of it's always going to catch up with him at some point | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
but mid-morning on a rainy day | 0:13:22 | 0:13:23 | |
I don't think he expected the police to be knocking his door and taking him away. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:28 | |
You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
You do not have to say anything. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:32 | |
Anything that you do say may be given in evidence. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
Just pop your arms out like that for me. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
I need to get your passport, OK? | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
-It's in the car. -OK. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:46 | |
Just wait there. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
Why don't take car keys? | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
-Your car keys are in the flat, yeah? -Yeah. -OK, come in there. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
Inside is Slyzauskas's shocked childminder and his young daughter. | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
Hello, madam, are you all right? | 0:14:00 | 0:14:01 | |
Do you speak English OK? | 0:14:01 | 0:14:03 | |
No. No. No English, OK. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:04 | |
Slyzauskas is getting increasingly agitated. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
BLEEP. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:09 | |
Have we got his keys? | 0:14:10 | 0:14:11 | |
I just need your passport. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
He may have come across a little bit aggressive. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
I don't think that was the case. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
I just think he was just upset and he realised he'd been caught. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
He might have been a bit upset with himself which isn't nice for him to | 0:14:24 | 0:14:29 | |
show that in front of his daughter. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
Obviously we're going to take them away from their family. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
We're going to send them back to a place where | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
they've left, that they don't want to be. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:37 | |
So it's understandable in some respects that they're going to get upset about it. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
You be happy? | 0:14:43 | 0:14:44 | |
It's my family here. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
Yeah. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:47 | |
Right, first of all, calm. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
-Yeah, yeah. -Be calm, OK? | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
-OK, OK. -If you're not calm, OK... | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
Just coming out with one now. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
Stand by. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:57 | |
-Just calm yourself down. -OK, OK. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
If you've committed a crime and you've been sentenced or you're due to be in court for that crime, | 0:15:01 | 0:15:06 | |
you've got to take responsibility for it and go. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
You understand that it's a European Arrest Warrant from Lithuania, OK? | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
That's why you've been arrested, OK? | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
-You understand that. -OK. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:20 | |
The wanted man is taken to Hereford custody suite. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:25 | |
Upon arresting him he was a little bit upset. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
Quite agitated, to be fair to him. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:34 | |
Why we wanted to handcuff him quite quickly just to get control of him. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
To be fair, he's calmed down now he's got into the custody block. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
But we'll see how we get on putting him in. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
He knows what's going on. He is going to need an interpreter. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
-Yeah. -But he understands the principle of what's happened. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
It's a European Arrest Warrant. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
It's ultimately for two counts of theft from dwelling. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
Vilius Slyzauskas will soon be taken to London to appear in a Westminster | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
extradition court. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
For Karl and Danny, another European Arrest Warrant has been successfully served. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:05 | |
We're not here to make any mistakes, you know? | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
We've got a duty to the people that this guy's burgled to make sure that | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
he's brought to justice. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
Back in 2011, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
police in Amsterdam were on the hunt for a dangerous fugitive. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
Armed robber Sean Devalda had gone on the run four years earlier | 0:16:30 | 0:16:35 | |
after a robbery on a cash transit van was foiled by police in Salford. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:40 | |
Jeroen Poelert and his crack team of detectives were determined that this | 0:16:40 | 0:16:44 | |
fugitive would be tracked down. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
We got the information that he was here in the neighbourhood, | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
he should be. That he was very violent and maybe armed. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:56 | |
So that... | 0:16:56 | 0:16:57 | |
That worries us. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
So we put extra effort on this case and we start an | 0:17:00 | 0:17:05 | |
investigation, so a whole team is focusing to get the person. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:11 | |
Inspector Remco van Huys was in charge of the hunt. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
He discovered Devalda was using a mobile phone in a rural area 20 miles from Amsterdam. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:21 | |
We were able to trace down in this area, | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
this is Kortenhoef in Holland, | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
it's not a very busy area so we had a bit of a problem... | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
..to locate him. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
But we knew that his telephone was somewhere around here. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
To find somebody... | 0:17:36 | 0:17:37 | |
..when you look back it's always easy | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
but when you begin, you have nothing. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
You have only a name and the information from abroad. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
Yes, we think he is in your neighbourhood. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
And you just start. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:51 | |
It's like a big puzzle and you only need one piece | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
and then you make it bigger. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
And in this case we used his telephone. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
But whilst they knew that Devalda was in the area, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
Remco and his team were struggling to pinpoint his exact location. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:11 | |
The phone taps gave us the information that he was going to flee to Spain, | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
to Tenerife, | 0:18:17 | 0:18:18 | |
at the beginning of February so we had to move rather quickly. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:23 | |
It was time to switch tactics. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
Using old-fashioned surveillance, the undercover cops | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
had to spot the fugitive in person. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
We saw him coming out of one of the houses and then it was for us the | 0:18:33 | 0:18:38 | |
point, OK, now we are 100% sure that he's in the house. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
So we tried to, we start our preparations to arrest him. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:48 | |
But in the four years since Devalda had fled, | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
his appearance had changed drastically. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
We asked our British colleagues to come over | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
because we knew that he had false passports, | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
so we also wanted someone who could identify him. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
To help Dutch police make sure they had the right man, | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
the National Crime Agency dispatched Graham Roberts to the scene. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:12 | |
They asked whether I could go over to the Netherlands | 0:19:12 | 0:19:15 | |
to give a briefing to the Dutch national police, | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
to give them an understanding of who Sean was and to explain to them | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
how much of a high-profile individual he was. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
The Dutch police's elite SWAT team | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
were called in and readied themselves to strike. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
We were so close, we could smell him. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:36 | |
We thought that we'd... | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
..be able to move in on him. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
Could the dangerous fugitive's years on the run finally be over? | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
In Leeds, officers Dave Lockwood and Tom Allen from West Yorkshire Police | 0:19:55 | 0:20:00 | |
regularly search out foreign criminals wanted by police in their native country. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:06 | |
Tonight they're looking for a member of a serious organised crime gang | 0:20:06 | 0:20:10 | |
involved in the manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:14 | |
The criminal they're after was convicted in Poland | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
and still has seven months of her prison sentence left to serve. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
The sort of numbers we're talking about here is 6,000g of pure amphet. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
So, a good level. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
The offences date back to 2000, 1st of January 2000, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:37 | |
and go right through to... | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
..March 2007. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
Poland wants to put this fugitive back behind bars. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
West Yorkshire's police investigation has led them to this house | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
where they've found a Polish grandmother who speaks no English. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:58 | |
We're looking for Sylwia Sokolowska. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
Is that yourself? | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
No? What's your name? | 0:21:03 | 0:21:04 | |
-ID card? -Er... | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
Or passport? | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
SHE SPEAKS POLISH | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
Yeah, do you want to ring somebody, | 0:21:14 | 0:21:15 | |
a son or daughter that speaks English? | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
If not we can get Language Line. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
The woman has called her daughter to translate. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
What's your mum called, please? | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
Sylwia... | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
And what's her surname? Sokolowska. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
Right, can I ask whereabouts do you live? | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
Are you local? | 0:21:36 | 0:21:37 | |
The woman's denied her name but Tom's speaking to the daughter | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
who has confirmed it is the wanted person. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
I don't think it's malicious from her mother. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
I think it's just poor English. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
The woman's name is confirmed as Sylwia Analia Sokolowska. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
She IS the one they're looking for. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
Would that be OK, if you could? | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
Just stay on the line. What I'm going to do, | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
I'm going to pass you back to your mum. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
If you can just... | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
If you just explain to her for now | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
that there is a warrant that's been issued in Poland for her arrest, | 0:22:04 | 0:22:10 | |
she doesn't need to worry, | 0:22:10 | 0:22:11 | |
and we'll explain in more details when the family member turns up and can translate for us. All right? | 0:22:11 | 0:22:18 | |
Tell her not to panic or get upset. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
I don't like it when there's little kids in t'house. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:25 | |
You know, a three, four-year-old and we're going to be taking her grandma away. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:32 | |
Another family member who lives close by has come to translate. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
If you can just tell her, | 0:22:37 | 0:22:38 | |
I have given her the documents which explains it. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
The Polish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the offence of | 0:22:44 | 0:22:49 | |
supplying controlled drugs. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
OK? What Poland are telling us is that they want Sylwia to go back to | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
serve the rest of her sentence now. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
She's going to be under arrest... | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
..for the offence. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:05 | |
As she begins to understand that justice has finally caught up with her, | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
the convicted drug dealer starts to get upset. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
There is a human consequence and I feel for the family who lost | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
Grandmother. But she brought that about, not West Yorkshire Police, | 0:23:20 | 0:23:25 | |
SHE brought that about. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:26 | |
As she is arrested and taken from the house, | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
her family is also devastated. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
Everyone's crying. The lady we've arrested's crying, daughter's crying, | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
the little girl's crying. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:41 | |
They're thinking this is the last time they're going to see her now | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
because we're going to take her, she's going to go to police station, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
she's going to go to court, because they can't pay the bail she's going to go to prison. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
So, they're really worried that she's going to, from there, go to Poland. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
So unless they can get to London to see her at court or in prison, | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
they're really worried that obviously we're taking Grandma away. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
She is wanted for some serious offences so there's nothing else | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
we're going to do bar arrest her and take her in. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
All right? | 0:24:07 | 0:24:08 | |
If you were to see her out in the street or see her in the supermarket, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
you wouldn't think the offences that's been put with her, or... | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
..what we've been told she's done. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:19 | |
No, you certainly wouldn't. I certainly wouldn't. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
Just up to where Dave is, please. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
At the police station, the drug-dealing grandmother's fingerprints are taken and sent | 0:24:28 | 0:24:33 | |
to Poland to confirm her identity. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
For now she'll be locked in a cell and held in custody until she can be | 0:24:36 | 0:24:41 | |
brought before a judge and her case decided. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
Though it's come as a shock to the woman and her family, | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
the police make no apologies for this arrest. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
Drug dealers perpetuate misery | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
and the crime that funds that drug addiction. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
So all drug dealers present as a single offender but I argue | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
that behind every drug dealer is a massive wave of criminality and misery | 0:25:02 | 0:25:08 | |
brought about by their greed and drug-trafficking. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
It's the early hours of the morning | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
in a small village on the outskirts of Amsterdam. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
A Dutch SWAT team is preparing to seize armed robber Sean Devalda. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
He's a violent criminal who's been on the run for four years. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
This is a dangerous operation. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
Because of the difficulty to walk to the house and because we know it was | 0:25:36 | 0:25:40 | |
a very large criminal, we thought maybe there were weapons involved, | 0:25:40 | 0:25:45 | |
we didn't do the arrest ourselves but we asked our special raid team. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
Graham Roberts from the National Crime Agency | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
was standing by to identify the wanted man. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
It was around 4am or 5am. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
The SWAT team had got in place. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
My colleague and I were sat in a vehicle quite close by | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
and listening to a Dutch commentary and not understanding a word, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
and just hoping for the positive words that he'd been arrested. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:14 | |
EXPLOSION, GLASS SHATTERS | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
But even after the arrest was made, | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
the Dutch team weren't sure who they'd captured. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
We didn't recognise him from the picture | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
when he was arrested by the raid team. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
But our British colleague was there. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
At first Graham found it difficult to confirm the arrested man was indeed Devalda. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:37 | |
I remember walking through the door, | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
lots of police officers around, | 0:26:39 | 0:26:41 | |
and there was an individual there who looked nothing like the photo, | 0:26:41 | 0:26:44 | |
the mugshot, that I'd seen of Sean Devalda. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
And then I was passed an Irish passport. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
It was only then when I had a look at the Irish passport | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
and some of the documents, that I took over, I then started to see a striking resemblance. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:57 | |
And when I asked the officers, could I have a good look in Devalda's eyes? | 0:26:57 | 0:27:02 | |
It was then that I realised that that was him. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
Detective Chief Inspector Aaron Duggan from Greater Manchester Police | 0:27:05 | 0:27:09 | |
had been hunting Devalda for four years. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
He flew to Holland to bring the fugitive home to justice. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:17 | |
When I told him he was under arrest I could see a marked change in his | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
body language. He looked at the floor | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
and that's when I knew that it had dawned on him | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
that he was going to prison. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:26 | |
For the Dutch police, the operation to track down one of Europe's most | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
wanted was a great success. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
It was very satisfying. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:36 | |
We were quite happy with the results. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
The message is, don't come over here because you're not safe here as well. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:44 | |
EXPLOSION, GLASS SHATTERS | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
After four years on the run, | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
Sean Devalda was sentenced to six years in prison. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:58 | |
He was released in 2014 but is now back inside for drugs offences. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:03 | |
In June 2016, burglar Vilius Slyzauskas was sent back to Lithuania after losing his | 0:28:03 | 0:28:10 | |
appeal against extradition. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:11 | |
Drug-dealing grandmother Sylwia Sokolowska should have been extradited | 0:28:13 | 0:28:17 | |
back to Poland in November 2016. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:21 | |
But she went on the run before she could be put on a military flight | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
back to a Polish prison. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:25 | |
There's now another warrant out for her arrest in the UK. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 |