Spanish police say they have captured a Moroccan citizen who escaped from a prison where he had been serving a sentence for drug-related offenses.
Police say the fugitive, identified only as Mohamed T.A., has been arrested in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave located on Africa's northern Mediterranean coast.
A police statement issued Thursday says Mohamed T.A. is considered one of the world's major hashish traffickers and had been in jail in Kenitra in northwestern Morocco serving an eight-year sentence when he escaped.
Police say Mohamed T.A. had bribed his way out of jail and Moroccan authorities, upon discovering his absence, had issued an international arrest warrant in December.
