November 12, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force caught up with two Louisiana men who escaped from a jail in New Orleans late in October. On October 23 at about 1 a.m., Bryan Dunbar, 35, and Alex Lee, 30 had escaped from a temporary jail facility from Orleans Parish after climbing a fence and escaping on foot. October 30, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended a violent fugitive after they had to use a taser in order to subdue him. Emanuel Pride who is wanted by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office for Resisting Arrest, Failure to Appear, Drug Possession and charges revoking his bond was found hiding behind a clothes dresser by Task Force Officers in an apartment in Shalimar. October 30, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended an Alabama man who is wanted for two murders and an attempted murder that took place over a decade ago in Alabama. A warrant that was issued earlier this month in Coosa County, Al states that Charles Richard Tooley had badly beaten several people and then left them in a building that he set on fire. October 22, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force located a missing “endangered” juvenile in Thomasville, GA. The Marshals task force was contacted by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office located in Eastman, GA for assistance after developing information indicating the juveniles were possibly in the area. According to Lt. Donald Helm, two juveniles, 16 year old Jamila Roberson and 17 year old Hermina Brown, disappeared from the campus of Dodge County High School on Tuesday, October 13. October 21, 2009 - Charles Andrew Williams, wanted on a federal warrant by the U.S. Marshals Eastern Iowa Fugitive Task Force for Possession of Child Pornography, was arrested yesterday by the U.S. Marshals in Pensacola.  The U.S. Marshals in Cedar Rapids, Iowa requested the assistance of the Pensacola Division of the Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force to locate and arrest Williams.  Task Force members with the Eastern Iowa Fugitive Task Force received information that Williams was living in Pace, Florida.  The Pensacola Task Force apprehended Williams without incident. September 17, 2009 - Teddie Lee Carroll, 44 is an absconded sex offender with three outstanding warrants who was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force (FRFTF) in Orlando. The Pensacola Division of the FRFTF arrested Carroll this evening in Pensacola. Carroll was being sought by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office for Violating Probation by Failing to Register as a Sex Offender. September 15, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force today announced the arrest of 18 year old Adrian Leebrent Hunter from Jupiter, Florida for the offenses of 3rd Degree Murder with a Firearm, Aggravated Battery with a Firearm, and Manslaughter with a Firearm. August 31, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Gang Unit worked together to capture a local rap artist who is wanted in connection with an armed home invasion. The Task Force and the Gang Unit caught up with suspect Antonio Dean aka “Lue Kane” late this afternoon in the city limits of Pensacola, after just missing him early Friday morning in the Lincoln Park section of Escambia County. June 19, 2009 - After an exhaustive three day manhunt, members of the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force and investigators from the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office have arrested 21 year old Stephen Michael Krimmel of Crawfordville, FL for the offenses of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Use of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony, and Narcotics Possession. June 02, 2009 - Working on information developed from Escambia County Sheriff’s Office investigators, the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force captured Wendell Ray Hurley who is wanted for the murder of Timothy Thames of Blue Angel Lane. June 02, 2009 - After a week on the run, U.S. Marshal’s Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force members arrested twenty five year old Rufus L. Lee of Perry, Florida for the offenses of 1st Degree Murder, Attempted Murder, and Armed Robbery. May 22, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested three wanted felons within 12 hours of each other, all being sought on shooting charges including one from Seattle, Washington. May 20, 2009 - The U.S. Marshal’s Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force, along with patrol and K-9 units from the Tallahassee Police Department, responded to an urgent Crime Stoppers tip early this morning which resulted in the arrest of one of Tallahassee’s most wanted men. Ion Cloud, nineteen years of age, had been the target of a multi-agency manhunt since the Leon County Sheriff’s Office identified Cloud as a subject of interest in the Circle K / McDonalds shooting that occurred on March 29, 2009. May 14, 2009 - Members of the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force had an early morning start after traveling from Tallahassee, FL to Eastpoint, FL in search of Anthony Joseph Erario. Erario was wanted by the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office in Florida for the offense of Capital Sexual Battery on a Child under the Age of 12. Task Force members located the 63 year old Erario at a residence in Franklin County where he was arrested by task force members without incident. April 22, 2009 - While executing a search warrant investigators and Deputy U.S. Marshals recovered a fully-loaded automatic rifle, numerous rounds of ammunition and other loaded hand guns from the hotel room of the murder suspect they apprehended yesterday after having to shoot him, according to the Marshals Office in Florida's Middle District. April 21, 2009 - Thomas Ford McCoy wanted in connection for the murder of a DeFuniak Springs man less than two weeks ago was apprehended earlier today by the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force when he was shot by a Deputy after McCoy pulled a gun on task force officers. April 10, 2009 - A Florida woman wanted in connection for an armed robbery and battery on an elderly person was apprehended today by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offender Task Force in Texas. Tracey Konewko was caught boarding a car ferry that crosses over Galveston Bay in Galveston, TX. April 9, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office worked together to capture a suspect who may be responsible for the death of a Pensacola man who was found shot to death in his car last year. Arthur James Roland was 28 years old at the time when he was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car at about 7 p.m. on the evening of October 30. April 3, 2009 - A man who was a victim of an aggravated battery last week in Louisiana died Wednesday afternoon after being taken off life support. The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested David Erin Nelson last week at his home in Crestview, FL who was accused of aggravated battery after he sucker-punched a man for no apparent reason knocking him out, losing consciousness never to wake up again. March 29, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force was busy this week after arresting five wanted felons.  The arrests included capturing an escapee who fled from a custody in Massachusetts after jumping out of a second story window; and another who beat a up a man who is still unconscious.   March 25, 2009 - The Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested a man wanted on a warrant charging him with two counts of Sexual Battery on a Victim Under the Age of 12 and two counts of Lewd and Lascivious Behavior/Molestation on a Victim Under 12 Years of Age. The fugitive, Pedro Rolando Andrade-Romero was arrested without incident last night at a mobile home park around 8 p.m. by the Marshals Task Force. March 13, 2009  - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force spent Thursday night targeting violent offenders whose suspected crimes all involved battery charges including sexual battery, assault with weapons and even a suspect accused of a hate crime. There were about 20 officers working together out rounding up the wanted felons from FDLE, Escambia, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Offices as well as Ft. Walton Beach and Pensacola Police Departments who are members of the Marshals Task Force. February 18, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force and members from Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office apprehended Jason Lee Able, a fugitive who escaped from custody last night while he was at an urgent care facility in Destin, FL. January 16, 2009 - The United States Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force in Pensacola announces the arrest of a wanted sex offender and suspected rapist by the Marshals Office in Nashville, TN. Chad Alioth, 32, was wanted by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office for Failure to Register and for Sexual Battery with a Deadly Weapon. January 16, 2009 - U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force arrests fugitive pilot and four others on Tuesday, January 13, 2009. January 14, 2009 - Fugitive Marcus Schrenker remains in the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital this morning receiving treatment for what appears to have been self-inflicted wounds to the wrist and forearm of his left arm. He is still under the custody of U.S. Marshals at this time. Schrenker was discovered approximately 10:00 p.m. last evening in a tent at the KOA campground near Quincy, Fla., in Gadsden County.  January 09, 2009 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force is off to a busy start in 2009 after arresting five wanted felons, including two sex offenders. December 17, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force today announced the arrest of Kentavious Martin, 18, for the offenses of Attempted 1st Degree Homicide, Armed Robbery with a Firearm, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Use of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony. December 11, 2008 - Howard Christian Sullivan, 22, of Marianna, FL was wanted by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office on charges of felony murder and armed robbery with a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing of Roger Donell Horne during a home-invasion robbery in Greenwood.  Task force members developed leads revealing Sullivan was in the Tallahassee area, and after 24 hours of investigation involving multiple surveillances, Sullivan was apprehended today. November 19, 2008 - Jonnetrich Price, 17, of Perry, FL was wanted by the Perry Police Department for the offense of Sexual Battery by using Threat of Deadly Weapon and Burglary of a Dwelling. These charges stem from an incident that occurred in Perry, FL on November 15, 2008. Price has previously been adjudicated as an adult and is associated with the Cashville Gang, a criminal street gang in Perry, Florida. October 21, 2008 - The United States Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force is asking the public's assistance in locating escaped federal inmate, Joaquin Rios who escaped from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Pensacola, Florida. Rios was discovered missing at approximately 1:30pm when he failed to report for the hourly head count during his lawn maintenance work detail at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. It is unknown whether or not Rios received any outside assistance at this time. September 18, 2008 - Scores of fugitives - from the Panhandle to the Keys – are now behind bars, courtesy of a U.S. Marshals-led sweep targeting the “worst-of-the-worst” offenders statewide. The U.S. Marshals Service, assisted by federal, state and local law enforcement across Florida, arrested 2,497 fugitives and cleared 2,943 warrants in 3 operations statewide as part of Operation Orange Crush. The results of this ten-week operation were announced today by U.S. Marshals Service Director John F. Clark and U.S. Marshal Dennis Williamson of the Northern District of Florida. August 28, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended a man wanted in New York City for allegedly raping and sodomizing his 11 and 5 year old daughters in 2005. About an hour earlier, the Task Force apprehended Bryan Wadsworth at a convenient store in Pensacola. The 23 year old Jacksonville, FL man is a suspect in an armed robbery where he and another suspect, his uncle Timothy Crosby, allegedly robbed an 84 year old man while visiting the gravesite of his deceased wife. July 14, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested a Niceville man wanted for 1st Degree Murder who is suspected of stabbing and killing his wife several days ago in a town outside of Tulsa, OK. According to reports from the Pawnee County Sheriff’s Office on July 12, 2008, Mark Paul Bixler allegedly stabbed his wife Michelle Bixler two times; once in the chest and once in the head before fleeing. Bixler was taken into custody by the Task Force after they found him trying to hide in a bedroom. June 27, 2008 - Members of the U.S. Marshal’s Violent Fugitive Task Force captured 34 year old Richard Rohn during a felony vehicle stop in Florida. Rohn, a resident of Gadsden County, was currently being sought by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for the offense of Armed Robbery with a Firearm. Rohn had been the target of a fugitive investigation by the U.S. Marshal’s Violent Fugitive Task Force after the case was referred to the task force by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office on June 17, 2008. June 17, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals North Florida Violent Fugitive Task Force captured three wanted fugitives today, two of them in Pensacola, FL. The Marshals and members of the Task Force from Escambia and Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Offices and Escambia Patrol deputies arrested Arthur Ishkhanian. In 2006, Ishkhanian aka “Lucky” was charged with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamines in Philadelphia.  Minutes later the Task Force officers went to a house in Pensacola in search of 36 year old Charles Steagall, a wanted sex offender. Also arrested by U.S. Marshals in Rochester, NY was Okaloosa County fugitive Eddie Lee Jackson. Jackson is wanted on a 1996 warrant for violating his probation on trafficking cocaine charges. Jackson remains in jail in New York pending extradition back to Florida. June 02, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals North Florida Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested a man wanted on a warrant charging him with five counts of Sexual Battery on a Victim Under the Age of 15 and one count of Lewd and Lascivious Behavior/Molestation on a Victim 12 Years of Age. The fugitive, 65 year old Chester Lamar Palmer was arrested this morning at 10:15 in Evergreen, AL by the Marshals and Task Force Investigators from Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Escambia County Sheriff’s Offices. April 25, 2008 - Three fugitives were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force. Ricardo Cortez Cook of Tallahassee, FL was wanted for the offense of Attempted Homicide-Willful Kill Premeditated, Aggravated Battery Causing Bodily Harm, and Violation of Probation stemming from an original offense of Marijuana Possession with Intent to Sell. Gary Burgess, a Florida registered sex offender, was wanted for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration and Failure to Notify Change of Residence within 48 hours. Anthony Antonio Blake, of Tallahassee, FL, was wanted on warrants for Aggravated Assault with a Firearm and Discharging a Firearm in Public. March 03, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals North Florida Violent Fugitive Task Force announces the arrest of a man wanted in Sullivan County New Hampshire regarding charges involving sexual battery on a child. Brian Wesley Morey was being sought on 2 counts of Aggravated Felonious Sexual Assault by local authorities in the town of Newport in New Hampshire.