Overview
- Milan police detained the Slovak national on Wednesday evening on a warrant issued by Italian prosecutors 16 years ago.
- The sentence relates to a series of shop thefts committed in 2010, with 11 months and seven days remaining to serve.
- Officers located him after he checked into a guesthouse on the city’s outskirts and took him to central San Vittore prison.
- He had returned to Italy to follow Slovakia’s men’s hockey team at the Winter Olympics and planned to attend the opener against Finland.
- Slovakia beat Finland 4-1 at Milan’s Santagiulia Arena, Reuters reported from a Carabinieri statement, and the suspect was not identified by name.