• May 05, 2008  - A high level sex offender who had fled the state to avoid arrest was captured late Saturday morning in downtown Tucson, AZ by U.S. Marshals. Shane G. Vaudry, 32, was arrested on May 3, 2007 at the Greyhound bus station after returning to Arizona from North Carolina. Vaudry was wanted by the Benson Police Department for failing to update his sex offender registration and also had an outstanding Tucson Police Department warrant.

• May 02, 2008 - This afternoon members of the U.S. Marshals led Phoenix High Intensity Drug Task Force (HIDTA) Fugitive Task Force arrested an alleged child rapist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lance Kelly, 51, was wanted by the Albuquerque Police Department after it was alleged that he raped a 10 year old girl.

• April 16, 2008 - From April 7-11, Phoenix valley law enforcement partners collaborated on “Operation Justice”, a one week fugitive round-up in honor of “National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Operation Justice netted valley law enforcement partners 236 fugitives wanted throughout Maricopa County. In addition to arresting these fugitives, 16 weapons were taken off the streets and 1 missing juvenile was found.

• March 18, 2008 - Deputy U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma captured accused child molester Bobby Kennedy, 29, in Lawton, OK. Deputy U.S. Marshals began hunting for Kennedy in March 2006, at the request of the Apache Junction Police Department.  In 2005 an arrest warrant was issued by the Pinal County Superior Court after Kennedy failed to appear for a court hearing. Kennedy, who was employed as a teacher and youth pastor at the Morning Star Academy Charter School, had been arrested by the Apache Junction Police Department after allegations were made that he molested students at the Morning Star Academy.

• March 06, 2008 - Members of the HEAT Fugitive Task Force consisting of state and local partners led by the U.S. Marshals captured escapee Frank Banashley Jr., in a motel in Mesa.  Officers began hunting for Banashley Jr. in early February when he escaped from a half-way house in Phoenix, where he was ordered to reside at immediately prior to his release from prison. Early this morning, Deputies developed information that Banashley Jr. was hiding at a motel in Mesa, at which time he was arrested without incident.

• February 06, 2008 - An Arkansas man, wanted for the 2005 sexual assault of a physically helpless person, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Phoenix High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force at an apartment in Phoenix.  Marlin Cash, 26, was wanted on a felony warrant by the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office in Little Rock, Arkansas for Sexual Assault.

• January 16, 2008 - Deputy U.S. Marshals and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents captured Heriberto Castro-Arellano, 34, in Phoenix, AZ. Heriberto Castro-Arellano, a Mexican national and member of an organized kidnapping ring, was wanted in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico for kidnapping and murder. According to Mexican authorities Castro-Arellano was wanted in connection with a kidnapping for ransom that occurred in March 2000, which resulted in the strangulation death of the cousin of Castro-Arellano.

• October 19, 2007 - An Orlando woman sought for the parental abduction of her three year old child was arrested this afternoon by the U.S. Marshals Phoenix HIDTA Task Force at her apartment in Phoenix.  Stephanie Simon, 36, was wanted on a felony warrant by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando, FL for custodial interference.

• October 18, 2007 - On October 16, 2007, United States Marshals Service (USMS) Deputies hunted down an alleged child molester.  Undre Demon Stewart, 23 years old, was wanted by the Tyler Police Department in Tyler, TX for three (3) counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child.

• September 20, 2007 - The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Operations Team arrested Juan Carlos Ramirez in Flagstaff early this morning. Ramirez was wanted for the brutal stabbing death of his girlfriend in North Carolina. He faces a 1st Degree Murder and two Attempted Murder charges in Greensboro.

• August 27, 2007 - On the heels of the conclusion of Operation FALCON, U.S. Marshals announce the arrest of Oliver Michael Pryor, wanted for the sexual abuse of his two step granddaughters. Pryor, 56, was arrested Saturday, August 25, 2007 in Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point), Mexico by the Sonora State Investigative Police (PEI) based on information developed by investigators of the U.S. Marshals Mexican Investigative Liaison (USMS-MIL) in Tucson.

• August 25, 2007 - In one of the largest fugitive initiatives ever undertaken in the Phoenix-Tucson area, the U.S. Marshals Service teamed with law enforcement agencies, arresting 340 fugitives and clearing 371 warrants during a recent six-day sweep. Led by the U.S. Marshals Service, Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally) is an ongoing, multi-city, nationwide law enforcement effort. The operation targets persons wanted for sexual offenses, gang members, narcotics violations, and other violent crimes.

• August 08, 2007 - The United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force, Glendale Police Fugitive Task Force and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives captured Texas homicide suspect Ronald Thompson in West Phoenix Wednesday night, ending a nine day manhunt.

• July 03, 2007 -  A fugitive member of the Black Gangster Disciples Street Gang based in Chicago, IL was arrested in a Phoenix apartment complex by the U.S. Marshals Phoenix HIDTA Task Force today.  Anthony Carr was wanted for Homicide and Aggravated Assault in Chicago. After a verbal altercation inside a parlor, Carr allegedly fired several rounds from an AK-47 into the parlor, killing one man and injuring several others. Carr was considered to be armed and extremely dangerous.
   
• May 31, 2007 - The U.S. Marshals Service will participate in the 23rd Annual Policia Internacional Sonora- Arizona (PISA) Reunion and Training Conference. U.S. Marshals from Arizona, the International Branch of the Investigative Services Division, and investigators from around the country assigned to the U.S. Marshals Mexican Investigative Liaison (MIL) Program will be in attendance at the three day event at the Hilton El Conquistador from June 4-6, 2007.

• April 05, 2007 The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Englewood, Colorado Police Department, in conjunction with the office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, announced today the arrest of Roy Adkins in a cold case murder from 1976. The 31-year investigation involved the slaying of 57-year old Viola Ginter, who was brutally strangled in her Englewood home.

• February 27, 2007 - The United States Marshals Service (USMS) deputies and Lake Havasu City Police Department detectives hunted down a wanted sex offender hiding in the tourist town of Lake Havasu City. Barry Bult, wanted for Parole Violation in South Dakota, was captured while at work earlier today.

• January 28, 2007 - A man suspected of involvement in a 10 mile chase down two San Bernardino County California freeways that resulted in the shooting death of a 12 year old boy was arrested this morning in Tucson by U.S. Marshals and the multi-agency Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST).

• January 19, 2007 - A man suspected in a grisly Los Angeles area double homicide was arrested January 18th by Tucson Police after receiving information from local U.S. Marshals. Christopher Anthony Brown, 38, was arrested without incident after Tucson Police recognized the minivan Brown was driving and initiated a high risk traffic stop at approximately 9:45am on Tucson’s south side.

• January 12, 2007- A California man wanted on multiple bank robberies in the Los Angeles area was hit by a car on I-17 while attempting to evade U.S. Marshal Fugitive Task Force members last night. Steven Dennis, 36, a California Parolee at Large, has outstanding warrants in San Bernardino for several bank robberies.

• December 06, 2006 - The United States Marshals Service (USMS) and Department of Public Safety (DPS) continued their sex offender enforcement efforts under the newly signed Adam Walsh Act by capturing convicted Sex Offender Evaristo Saucedo, a Mexican National. Saucedo had fled authorities on two prior occasions, but could not escape the Task Force members.

• November 20, 2006 - Last week, fugitives in Maricopa County had a brief, one-time opportunity to take their first step toward a second chance and took full advantage of it. Over 1,300 fugitives surrendered peacefully to the law over four days at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix as part of Fugitive Safe Surrender.

• November 17, 2006 - Over the past two days, more than 350 fugitives took their first step toward a second chance at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church as part of Fugitive Safe Surrender.  There are only two days left for fugitives with outstanding felony warrants to turn themselves in at 1401 E. Jefferson in Phoenix, between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm.

• November 07, 2006 - The United States Marshals Service (USMS) Fugitive Task Force tracked down Philip Stapleton, a man the New York Police Department (NYPD) believe shot his friend three times in the head, killing him. Stapleton was one of Bronx’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive’s.

• November 03, 2006 - The United States Marshals Service (USMS) High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force arrested Diliberto Arce at a west Phoenix home last night. Arce, who is an undocumented alien, was wanted on federal violations in Kansas for methamphetamine trafficking and is also a suspect in a homicide case in Sinaloa, Mexico.

• October 27, 2006 -  Phoenix, AZ – The United States Marshals Service (USMS) High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office arrested homicide suspect Adan Aguayo-Reyes last night in Maricopa, AZ. Mexican officials believe Aguayo-Reyes murdered two individuals in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico.