Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt

Lars-Inge Andersson (5 May 1945 – 15 April 2016), best known as Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, later Lars Patrick Ferm and even later known as Lars Patrick Carlander, was a Swedish criminal. Svartenbrandt spent almost 40 years combined in prison for several robberies, violent crimes, and prison escapes. He was described as the "most dangerous man in Sweden". Svartenbrandt described himself as an "uncurable psychopath".

Early life Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt was born on 5 May 1945 in in Avesta Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden. He grew up under unstable conditions. At twelve years old, he was placed under protective public care order (skyddsuppfostran) and ended up in juvenile detention school. In May 1961 he celebrated his 16th birthday by escaping from a juvenile detention school. The following year, 1962, he broke into a military armory and received his first prison sentence but escaped the following year. In 1967, he received his first detention sentence (interneringsdom) for grand theft (grov stöld) and threat to public servant (hot mot tjänsteman). In 1969 came his first conviction for armed robbery when he was sentenced to four years in prison.

1970s and 1980s Viktoriagatan 15 in Gothenburg where Svartenbrandt managed escape to after the robbery at Döbelnsgatan in Stockholm in 1979. During a nighttime police raid, he gave up and was returned to the custody. Police hunt for Svartenbrandt and the other escapees from Kumla Prison, 8 June 1973.

Svartenbrandt first came to public attention in connection with the spectacular mass escape from the Kumla Prison in August 1972. The escapers included Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, Bo "Bosse Dynamit" Wickman, Jan Holger "Nisse Pistol" Nilsson, Karl Bruno "Kalle Kanon" Karlsson and the Yugoslav Embassy murderers Miro Barešić and Anđelko Brajković. Together with 15 other hard-hit interns, including terrorist Miro Barešic, he climbed over the "fugitive walls" from what which was called Europe's safest prison, and disappeared. Svartenbrandt was arrested a week later in Lindesberg. After two months on the run, Svartenbrandt was captured in Rörsås, south of Mariestad. Svartenbrandt was granted leave in October 1979 from Hall Prison to visit a doctor in Uppsala. Instead he freed his friend Benny Lilja who along with other prisoners had gone to the bathhouse in Södertälje. Svartenbrandt was waiting outside the bath house in a black Jaguar and Lilja got into the car and the two drove off. The day after Svartenbrandt and Benny Lilja rushed into the post office on Döbelnsgatan in Stockholm with rubber masks depicting Elvis Presley and John Travolta over their faces and AK 4's in their hands. During the escape Svartenbrandt fired 19 shots into a police van from the Östermalm police where officers Christer Backman, Gunnar Andersson and Dick Gunnelöf were sitting. All of them were injured and Gunnar Andersson was hit by seven shots. A doctor described it later as "an incredible luck that he survived". He was extradited to Sweden in May and sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment. He was released from in early February 1999 and then left his family in Linköping and was living with his new girlfriend at a friend in Stockholm. The day after Svartenbrandt was taken into custody after he was found at a staircase in the hospital. He was then taken by the police to the psychiatric clinic. On 30 June, he decided himself to go to Linköping and hand him over to the police because he felt singled out in the media for the shooting, but was released. He then denied any involvement. On 13 July, he was arrested at a McDonald's restaurant in Upplands Väsby after having been shadowed by the police since Länna south of Stockholm. At the time of his arrest he was also suspected for a bank robbery in Helsingborg on 6 May but was acquitted of these charges. He was convicted, however, for the other offenses to a six-month prison sentence. He was sentenced to one year in prison. In the spring of 2002, he moved to Arbrå, 15 kilometers north of Bollnäs. Svartenbrandt was arrested and convicted in Bollnäs District Court for aggravated robbery and kidnapping and was sentenced to seven years in prison. Svartenbrandt's 32-year-old accomplice was sentenced to five years in prison and together they would pay just over 430,000 SEK in damages. After five years in Norrtälje Prison, he was released on 29 October 2007 and then published his second book ...men saknar kärlek (2007), and gave lectures to paying audiences in Dalarna. He then talked again about God and distanced himself from his old life. In January 2008, he was arrested for offence against the Swedish Knife Act (brott mot knivlagen) and drug offenses in the mall in his former hometown of Borlänge. In August 2008, he was caught red-handed during a burglary in a summer cottage. In 2008, Svartenbrandt was evicted from his apartment because the rent was not paid, and several distraint attempts was made in 2007 and 2008. On 3 April 2009, he robbed a grocery store in Blackeberg and stole a little over 5,000 SEK. The next day at 05:56 in the morning, he was arrested on Riksväg 62 north of Råda at the entrance to Hagfors Airport in Värmland together with a woman. Later one more person was arrested in a house in Hagfors. The detention hearing took place on 12 April 2009 at the police station in Borlänge. He then spent more than two months in custody before he admitted involvement in the robbery. Svartenbrandt was sentenced to five years in prison for robbery. The robbery resulted in about 96,000 SEK in various currencies. The money and the weapons were never found. He was also sentenced along with two other accomplices to jointly pay damages of more than 140,000 SEK. Svartenbrandt was also convicted for the shop robbery in Blackeberg and would with his accomplice jointly have to pay damages of more than 70,000 SEK. In 2011 Svartenbrandt was incarcerated at Salberga Prison in Sala.

2010s On 13 April 2014, Svartenbrandt was released after the five-year prison sentence from 2009. Less than a day later, Svartenbrandt was reported to the police for unlawful threat (olaga hot) after threatening his daughter Jackie Ferm. On 5 December 2014 Svartenbrandt was arrested on probable cause suspected of rape by Falu District Court after having surrendered voluntarily to the police in Lund. He had previously in absentia been arrested a number of days suspected of the crime. Svartenbrandt was released on 19 December 2014 after the investigation was closed because of lack of evidence. In February 2015 Svartenbrandt told Expressen that he suffered from malignant prostate cancer. On 29 September 2015 he was arrested in central Kopparberg. He was charged on 16 October 2015 for assault of a woman. On 26 November 2015 Örebro District Court sentenced Svartenbrandt to two months in prison for assault, unlawful threat (olaga hot) and threat to public servant (hot mot tjänsteman). He was also suspected of attempted violence to public servant (våld mot tjänsteman), but was acquitted on that allegation. He was also sentenced for assaulting a woman with whom he argued about his health and the treatment he underwent. Svartenbrandt was also charged for in connection with this to have threatened a teenager and a man who witnessed the altercation, but was acquitted of the allegations. The sentence was two months in prison and damages totaling 40,000 SEK to the four police officers.

Death Police received an alarm that an altercation took place in an apartment in Kopparberg. When they arrived at the scene they discovered the fire. Anna-Lena Carlander, Svartenbrandt's wife, suffered minor smoke inhalation injuries and was rescued from the apartment by emergency services. When the firemen went in, they also found Svartenbrandt dead. He was 70 years old.

Personal life Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt had five children; three with his first wife Susanna Franzén, including the daughter Jackie Ferm, who participated as a contestant on the 2010 reality show Paradise Hotel on the Swedish TV6 channel. His son Jack died on 3 November 2006, 14 years old, in a traffic accident in Svalöv. Svartenbrandt got the news of his son's death while incarcerated at . In 2015, he married Anna-Lena Carlander and adopted her last name.