A murder suspect escaped from the custody of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvarden) on Thursday, setting off a large-scale police action.
A major manhunt has been launched by police in Stockholm after a prisoner managed to escape from the Storboda correctional facility. The fugitive has not been described as dangerous.
A leopard that escaped from its central in an eastern Sweden zoo on Monday managed to gobble up three miniature deer before it was caught and returned.
A driver in southern Sweden had to reassure police he wasn't drunk after his journey home from work in the early hours of the morning was interrupted by a herd of escaped circus camels.
A violent man who escaped from a psychiatric hospital last week was found by police on Monday, despite dramatically changing his appearance from the picture police had published.
A 36-year-old convicted drug smuggler who fled prison in Sweden in 2004 by feigning illness has been caught in Spain after a massive international man hunt that lasted eight years.
The three armed men who robbed a bank on Monday morning are believed to be hiding in the woods near the Norwegian border, with police revealing that they escaped with 100,000 kronor ($14,945) - in coins.
The search for the three masked men who robbed a bank in western Sweden on Tuesday morning continued through the night, with police warning the public that the men are armed and dangerous.
A family from eastern Sweden who feared their missing pet parrot had perished in freezing cold temperatures could hardly believe their ears when they heard squawks of "paaaapaaa" emanating from a nearby forest.
A bear, which was destined for a zoo in central Sweden, has escaped from its enclosure in Alaska, and is now at large, forcing zookeepers to launch a search party.
A 24-year-old prisoner from Hall, one of Sweden's maximum-security prisons, fled whilst on temporary leave in Stockholm on Thursday morning and remains at large.
Säter high-security psychiatric hospital in central Sweden was the target of an escape attempt on Thursday morning. Two people were arrested as they smashed their car into a fence.
Police have issued a nationwide alert following the escape of a convicted murderer from two guardians during a temporary release in central Stockholm on Wednesday.
<span class="smallPrint">KATRINEHOLM</span>. A 26 year old woman who <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3496">escaped from Karsudden secure hospital</a> a few days ago returned voluntarily on Friday.
Police forces across Sweden and abroad are looking for a woman who escaped from a secure hospital near Katrineholm on Wednesday. The 26 year old, who was convicted of murdering her own grandmother, fled the hospital in a waiting car with her two year old daughter.
