A 25-year-old German man was arrested Thursday after escaping from the Miyagi Prefectural Police and being placed on a nationwide wanted list.
The police identified him as Petro Vladimirovic Shchus, a self-described student with no permanent address. He broke out of the Sendai Central Police Station in Aoba Ward on Wednesday, they said.
Shchus allegedly escaped from the interrogation room on the fourth floor of the police station at around 4:10 p.m. after loosening a rope that had bound him at the waist while one of the officers in charge of the case had left his seat.