Overview

• Officers arrested him at midday Tuesday at a restaurant inside a Casarrubios del Monte service area in Toledo, according to police sources.
• The 47-year-old had been on the run for nearly eight months after escaping Valladolid’s Villanubla prison on February 14.
• He was serving a 28-year sentence for criminal organization, drug trafficking and document falsification at the time of the escape.
• Guardia Civil previously detained three suspects accused of helping him leave the prison hidden in a bundle on a luggage cart.
• Investigators used social-media analysis to confirm ties between the fugitive and the three suspects and reported he wielded significant influence inside the prison.