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Imanta pedophile in Riga detained after year-long manhunt

BC, Riga, 10.08.2015.Print version
A year-long manhunt for the so-called Imanta pedophile in Riga ended last week after the police successfully located and detained the man, Interior Minister Rihards Kozlovskis (Unity) said in an interview with the Latvian Television show "Rita panorama", cites LETA.

The minister said that the State Police would provide further information.

 

He indicated that finding and apprehending the person was a result of a painstaking investigation.

 

Kozlovskis hopes that the police have done their work and that the court will give the man an actual prison sentence and not community service.

 

The State Police will give a press conference at 1 p.m. today to present detailed information about the investigation. Riga Region Criminal Police Chief Andrejs Sazonovs will participate in the press conference.

 

As reported, since the spring of 2014 the police were carrying out an extensive investigation to locate a person, who had sexually assaulted several underage girls in Riga's Imanta suburb.






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