{"id":157349,"date":"2020-07-07T13:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=157349"},"modified":"2020-07-07T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:02:06","slug":"most-wanted-fugitive-captured-at-liverpool-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/most-wanted-fugitive-captured-at-liverpool-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Wanted Fugitive Captured At Liverpool Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A fugitive who has been on the run for over 15 years has been caught and arrested at the John Lennon Airport in Liverpool.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157386\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157386\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/56C80B56-C770-40D2-8B06-A1853E853BE2-288x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/56C80B56-C770-40D2-8B06-A1853E853BE2-288x300.jpeg 288w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/56C80B56-C770-40D2-8B06-A1853E853BE2-768x800.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/56C80B56-C770-40D2-8B06-A1853E853BE2-600x625.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/56C80B56-C770-40D2-8B06-A1853E853BE2.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-157386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Anthony Fitzgibbon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mark Anthony Fitzgibbon, now 49, was arrested upon his arrival at the airport recently, it has been revealed. He was initially sentenced back in 1999, for supplying class B drugs, where he was sentenced to 8 years in prison. He was recalled in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Mark was detained at around midnight last night, when a Ryanair plane that he was aboard landed.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: &#8220;We know Fitzgibbon was abroad for a while but like many fugitives he wrongly believed he could evade capture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no safe haven for fugitives and time is no barrier to the pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners across the world to pursue these individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Its unclear what\u2019s his fate will be, but we can assume prison time.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been wanted again for a long period of time, after he was suspected of large scale drug trafficking many years ago, and more recently police found 84kg of cannabis and 57kg of amphetamine powder at an address in Liverpool linked to Fitzgibbbon back in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He was on the crimestoppers database for the most wanted criminals who\u2019re on the run; he is believed \u00a0to have been staying in Holland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fugitive who has been on the run for over 15 years has been caught and arrested at the John Lennon Airport in Liverpool. Mark Anthony Fitzgibbon, now 49, was arrested upon his arrival at the airport recently, it has been revealed. He was initially sentenced back in 1999, for supplying class B drugs, where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":157386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[556,1727,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-157349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157387,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157349\/revisions\/157387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}