Overview
- Policía Nacional arrested Ángel Benito Moreno at a service-area restaurant in Casarrubios del Monte, Toledo, concluding an eight-month search.
- Officers also detained a 26-year-old man as a suspected accomplice for concealment.
- Upon identification, the fugitive presented a manipulated driving licence with his photograph and a relative’s personal data.
- Moreno was serving a 28-year sentence for organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering and document fraud, with an additional requisition from the Cáceres provincial court for falsedad documental.
- The probe involved UDYCO Central, Plasencia judicial police and a fugitives unit using surveillance, security footage and social‑media analysis, after three inmates were previously arrested as alleged collaborators and the Villanubla prison director was removed.