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Sentenced to life in prison in Belgium and 25 years in Albania/ 51-year-old man arrested on international wanted list

2026-05-19 09:38:00, Kronika CNA

Sentenced to life in prison in Belgium and 25 years in Albania/ 51-year-old man

A 51-year-old Albanian man internationally wanted for murder has been arrested in Ohio, USA.

Sokol Hoxha has been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment by Beligjika after killing a citizen whom he had previously exploited for prostitution.

Also in 1997, he killed two brothers in Albania, an incident for which he was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Fier Court.

 

 

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State Police/Operation codenamed "Globe" is finalized.

The operation was finalized as a result of cooperation between the Diplomatic Security Service of the US Embassy in Tirana, the Criminal Police Department, Interpol Tirana, Interpol Washington, Interpol Manchester and Interpol Brussels.

An Albanian citizen, sentenced in Albania to 25 years in prison, and in Belgium to life imprisonment, for murder, is arrested in Ohio, USA.

The arrested man, in March 1997, killed 2 brothers in Patos, and 5 months later, he killed an Albanian citizen in Belgium, whom he had exploited for prostitution.

As a result of international police cooperation between investigators from the Special Police Unit of the Criminal Police Department (known as the "Joint Investigative Services Unit", which works closely with the DSS/OCIU International Criminal Investigation Units at the US Embassy in Tirana), the Interpol Directorate at the State Police, their counterparts in Washington, Manchester and Brussels, the US Marshals and other law enforcement agencies in the US, as part of the codenamed "Globe" operation, the Albanian citizen wanted since 1997 was arrested in Ohio:

-Sokol Hoxha, 51 years old, born in Fier.

This citizen, in 2000, was sentenced by the Fier Court to 25 years in prison for the criminal offense of "Murder", committed in collaboration, after on 30.03.1997, in Patos, Fier, in collaboration with citizen DS, he killed citizens HB and IB (brothers) with a firearm, for weak motives.

Also, in 2010, he was sentenced by the Court of Brussels, Belgium, to life imprisonment for the criminal offense of "Intentional Murder", after on 29.08.1997, he killed with a firearm, in Brussels, an Albanian citizen, whom he had previously exploited for prostitution.

The State Police is working closely with US law enforcement agencies to return the 51-year-old to face justice in Albania.





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