SVT Nyheter Dalarna has previously written about the woman who at the time was wanted by the police and was found asleep in a car.
When the police were to start the arrest, she threw herself into the river to swim from the police.
According to the convicted man, the woman was seized by panic in the water, whereupon he stole a boat to come to her rescue.
Captured within 100 meters
According to police on the spot, there was no panic in the woman's behavior, but what was found was that the man in the stolen boat helped the woman up and then drove away with the boat.
Police boats took up the hunt for the fugitive couple who gave up after about 100 meters.
The convicted man appears in 51 sections of the criminal record and he is convicted at the same time for several other crimes, including for beating a guard and threatening him with a knife.
The penalty is six months' imprisonment.