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Updated | Escaped prisoner caught in Santa Venera
Joseph Cini, ‘il-Pele’, has been found and captured by the Police and the Special Response Team in Santa Venera.
21 August 2011, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
2 min read
Updated at 12:56
According to the police's communication office, Joseph Cini was caught following information given by the public which led the Police and the Special Response Team (SRT) to a private residence in Santa Venera.
Cini has been arrested and is currently being interrogated by the police. He is expected to be arraigned in court later on today.
12:15: The police's communication office (CMRU) has confirmed that escaped prisoner Joseph Cini has been found by the police this morning. According to ONE News, Cini was found in Santa Venera.
The prisoner was found during a coordinated operation between the police and the prison's Special Response Team.
CMRU is expected to issue a press statement shortly.
Earlier: Contacted by MaltaToday, the Police’s communication office (CMRU) said that police have spent the night looking for Cini, who escaped from Mater Dei Hospital.
Yesterday, police received several calls from the public claiming they had seen Cini in the vicinity of Rabat, at Nigret. CMRU this morning confirmed that police have been carrying their search all over the island and added that the search will not stop until the wanted person is found.
However, the Police’s communication office was not able to confirm whether more calls had been received throughout the night and this morning.
Cini had been in prison for only 10 days over breach of bail conditions. Prior to that, MaltaToday is informed that police had spent some 30 days look for him and had employed four mobile squads in an attempt to recapture him. He was reportedly found in the vicinity of Rabat.
Police search is ongoing.
Cini was last seen wearing light brown shorts and a white tee-shirt with black stripes. He is 171 cm tall, of slight build, of dark complexion and has a shaven head. Cini sports several tattoos on various parts of his body and was barefooted when he escaped.
Anyone who has information on the whereabouts of Joseph Cini is asked to forward such information to the police on telephone number 21221111.
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Patricia Marsh •
@F-F-S. Convinced me. I tend to agree with you
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@Zurrieq_Blues Everything's wrong with maintaining criminals nicknames because it upkeeps their notoriety. Criminals need to be stripped of everything that makes them 'famous'
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I'm gonna speak as an ex-prisoner and as a citizen. I was taken to hospital myself going for checkups I was handcuffed until the doctors room. When I was in Hospital for an operation I'm sorry to say I could have escaped easily, the officer who would be with me goes to buy from the canteen and I always had one officer and not two as in this case. To point out they where police now its different its prison wardens. Others sleep at night on the bed opposite with the handcuff left in my bed side cabinet. So yes there are security lay backs. This was in 2003. I knew Pele through a drug rehabilitation program in 2004, the fact is that unfortunately to say this person has been given a lot of chances to arrange his life but it seems he doesn't want.
Patricia Marsh •
@F-F-S what's wrong with giving prominence to a criminal's nick-name? Nobody knows Joseph Cini but everyone heard about the Pele.
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Why do the press keep giving prominence to criminal's nick-names? The bloke's name is Joseph Cini...nothing more, nothing less.
Patricia Marsh •
I am proud to be always right cause I always insisted that Maradona is by far better than Pele. Pele, like Maradona is always good at beating the defenders and goalkeeper. What was missing in Pele is that he never uses the hand of God. If that was the case, he would never have been caught. Better luck next time PELE!!!
