The State Police has released footage of Sokol Hoxha’s deportation from the US to Albania. He is accused of three murders in Albania and Belgium.
In the footage released by the State Police, Hoxha can be seen getting off the plane without handcuffs, appearing calm and even greeting the US authorities.
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Hoxha, 51, had been on the run for around 30 years. In 2000, the Fier Court sentenced him to 25 years in prison for the criminal offense of “Murder,” committed in cooperation, after he and another person shot and killed two brothers for trivial motives in Patos on March 30, 1997.
Meanwhile, in 2010, the Brussels Court sentenced him to life imprisonment for the intentional murder of an Albanian woman in Brussels, a crime committed on August 29, 1997.
According to the authorities, the victim had previously been exploited for prostitution by the convicted man.
State Police
A citizen convicted of 3 murders in Albania and Belgium has been deported to Albania.
As a result of close cooperation between the Diplomatic Security Service of the US Embassy in Tirana, the Criminal Police Department/Joint Investigation Unit, Interpol Tirana, Interpol Washington, Interpol Manchester and Interpol Brussels, the procedure for deporting to Albania the citizen arrested in Ohio on 05.05.2026 was finalized as part of the operation codenamed “Globi”:
– Sokol Hoxha, 51, born in Fier.
In 2000, this citizen was sentenced by the Fier Court to 25 years in prison for the criminal offense of “Murder,” committed in cooperation, after, on 30.03.1997, in Patos, Fier, in cooperation with citizen D. S., he shot and killed citizens H. B. and I. B. (brothers) for trivial motives.
Also, in 2010, he was sentenced by the Brussels Court in Belgium to life imprisonment for the criminal offense of “Intentional Murder,” after, on 29.08.1997, he shot and killed an Albanian woman in Brussels whom he had previously exploited for prostitution.
The deportation of citizen Sokol Hoxha this morning was the result of continued 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 International Criminal Investigations Units DSS/OCIU at the US Embassy in Tirana, as well as with the US Marshals and ICE-ERO in the United States.
The State Police is fully committed and determined to stand alongside its American partners in joint investigations, particularly in cases involving citizens wanted by the authorities who evade the justice systems of both countries.
