March 27, 2008 - After 14 years on the run, Bobby Alton Blanchard is now behind bars, and the Northwest Arkansas Sex Offender and Violent Crime Task Force made it happen. Blanchard, 51, was arrested on March 25, in Peel, Arkansas. He was wanted on charges of sexual battery and statutory rape in Lewis County, Tennessee. Blanchard assumed the name of Mickey Lee Sutton more than 12 years ago and alluded capture for more than 14 years until U.S. Marshals brought his run to a halt.

February 04, 2008 - Darryl Gordon, 46, of Crawford County, Arkansas was taken into custody by agents with the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) along with U.S. Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) at the Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia.  Gordon was being sought by members of the U.S. Marshal’s Service River Valley Fugitive Task Force in Fort Smith, Arkansas, for 10 counts of Sexual Assault 2nd Degree.

January 08, 2008 - The Northwest Arkansas Sex Offender and Violent Crime Task Force announces the arrest of Jerry Wayne Strode, 54, a career criminal with over 40 arrests spanning back to 1968. Members of the River Valley Sex Offender Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Service in Muskogee, Oklahoma arrested Strode early Tuesday morning at his work site near Poteau, Oklahoma.