A 29-year-old Albanian bandit who
broke out of jail at Vercelli by lowering himself down from his
cell on a bedsheet on New Year's Eve has been caught in the
Netherlands, Italian police said Tuesday.
Kristjan Mehill, a member of the 'gang with the ice-cold eyes'
who staged a string of burglaries in villas in Piedmont and
Lombardy, was serving a term until 2029.
The gang's biggest heist was in November 2018 when they stole
cash and valuables worth some 40,000 euros from noted Monferrato
wine producer Riccardo Coppo after repeatedly threatening to
blow his brains out unless he opened his safe.
The armed and violent gang were arrested in May 2019.
Police said they operated with military precision - the same
precision shown in Mehill's spectacular jail break.
Three alleged accomplices in the jail break were also arrested.
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