It would lead them to a fugitive, who was hiding on the floor of his boat.
The investigation is ongoing, and Jesus Chavez's alleged co-conspirator, Carlos Gomez, remains a fugitive.
Alberto Fujimori, who ruled Peru for a decade from 1990, is a fugitive in Japan.
Alexander remained a fugitive at midday Wednesday, and a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
He said he could provide information if Soriano was a fugitive, but he is now in custody.
In one instance, police even tracked a fugitive across international borders using his World of Warcaft account.
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July 21, 2008: Karadzic is arrested after more than a decade as a fugitive from war crimes charges.
Greig pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud.
He had been a fugitive and placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
Police in Mexico have detained an Argentine national suspected of being a fugitive torturer wanted by a Spanish judge.
Kimble is so gifted a fugitive by now that you feel he should carry on running and never stop.
Federal prosecutors, calling it "the most extreme case" of harboring a fugitive, asked the judge to give her 10 years in prison.
Acevedo, 44, was ordered held without bail on a charge of being a fugitive from justice late Wednesday during a video hearing.
After a news expose on him was published, Lamba became a fugitive.
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Gen Mladic was extradited to the Netherlands from Serbia at the end of May after being captured following 15 years as a fugitive.
The entire country, roughly the size of Switzerland, employs just 2, 000 policemen, and it's easy for a fugitive to disappear into the forest.
Mr Nadir fled the UK in 1993, while awaiting trial, and remained a fugitive in northern Cyprus until 2010 when he suddenly returned.
While he was a fugitive, Summers was charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors with kidnapping, burglary and nearly three dozen counts of sexual assault.
In Italy during the war, a fugitive prisoner, he woke from a sleep on a mountainside to find a German officer standing over him.
But his death in 1977, aged 91, went largely unnoticed: a sad exit for a former mayor, but a good one for a fugitive.
"Authorities in California either didn't put his name into the computer or neglected to enter in the fact that he was a fugitive, " Rutledge said.
Police in the Asian country passed on information to Interpol which made possible the arrest of Suljic, who had been a fugitive since December 2011.
For Brazil, the latest test of government and judicial resolve concerns Nicolau dos Santos, himself a former labour-court judge and now a fugitive from justice.
He is a fugitive, on the run, so it is unlikely any of his information will be current, at least in the last couple of years.
Nadir stayed a fugitive in northern Cyprus, occasionally venturing over to Turkey, until 2010 when he decided to return to the UK to face the music.
Now it was actively aiding a fugitive wanted for questioning in the murder investigation of his neighbor Gregory Faull, who was shot dead at his own home.
Within two weeks of his appointment, he had a second lucky break when a fugitive Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was nabbed by Turkish special forces in Kenya.
's north-east, gathered in the capital, Bangkok, in support of Thaksin Shinawatra, a fugitive former prime minister, and to demand the dissolution of parliament and an early election.
President Bill Clinton left office with immunity from criminal prosecution and a flurry of pardons, including pardons for his half-brother Roger, Patty Hearst and a fugitive oil-trader, Marc Rich.
So far, Iraqi newspapers that have covered the story have focused on the prime minister's contention that Radhi is a fugitive who should be brought to justice for his crimes.
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