Police officers in Prague caught a wanted prisoner who left an unguarded workplace in Velvary. He paid extra for the driver who was on the phone behind the wheel
A nationally wanted man was traveling with the driver, who was stopped by officers for using the phone while driving.
The threat of a pointed weapon prevents him from escaping. Eventually it became clear that he was a wanted prisoner. Both men were handed over by the constables to their colleagues from the state police.
It all started before three o’clock in the morning in Českobrodská street when a yellow van stopped because its driver was holding a mobile phone while driving. During the check, the officers suspected that the 36-year-old man was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He tested negative for alcohol, but refused a drug test. Before that, however, he admitted to the officers that he smoked marijuana.
Two other men were traveling with him in the car. One of them matched the description of the wanted person, so the patrol asked him to prove his identity. The passenger stated that he did not have documents, but he cooperated with the patrol. But a completely different man was looking at him from the database, where the constable checked the information dictated by him. Even so, the person kept trying to convince him that it was him.
When the officer asked if he had dyed his hair and had a freckle tattooed on his face, he ran out of arguments. After being told by the patrol to get out, he started running. One of the officers ran after him and stopped after threatening to use a weapon. A forty-one-year-old man was impersonating his brother, and he had a good reason for it. He escaped from an unguarded workplace in Velvary in the Kladno region.
Irena SeifertováMP Prague