Francis Jiménez Sutherland, aka Francois He was the leader of a gang called The Terror Killer dedicated to the commission of selective murders, arms and drug trafficking in Panama. He had been fleeing the authorities of his country for years, but the Fugitive Group of the National Police located and arrested him in Madrid.
National Police officers arrested the leader of this gang in the Madrid municipality of Las Rozas, wanted for homicide by Panamanian authorities. He was considered by INTERPOL as one of the most wanted Latin American fugitives in Europe.
The investigation began last July when agents learned that a Panamanian fugitive was included by INTERPOL, within the framework of the INTERPOL-EL PACCTO 2.0 project, as one of the most wanted fugitives.
The search warrant was filed when Panamanian authorities detected the existence of a gang group called The Terror Killer in the province of Colón.
This group, composed of men and women, and led by the fugitive, was dedicated to committing different criminal actions in a coordinated and organized manner, including selective homicides, drug trafficking, armed robberies and home invasions.
Family environment
The agents’ investigations have made it possible to verify that part of his family could reside in different regions of Spain, which led the investigators to carry out surveillance and controls in several provinces of the national territory.
Once two houses were detected in the provinces of Madrid and Barcelona, surveillance was intensified on a house in the municipality of El Escorial where a large group of relatives of the fugitive lived who, in addition, frequently changed homes.
When the fugitive’s presence was detected in one of the houses his family had just moved into, a surveillance device was installed nearby and, after monitoring the vehicle he was traveling in, it was arrested in a shopping center in the Madrid city of Las Rozas.
