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  • January 08, 2008 - The close working partnership between the America’s Most Wanted television show and the United States Marshals Service has once again yielded dividends. Robert Falkner, 33, a fugitive recently profiled on the television show, was arrested today in his room at a Reno hotel. Falkner was wanted for a 2007 Assault With a Deadly Weapon on a Police Officer in Los Altos, California.
  • October 10, 2007 - The U.S. Marshals Service, supported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Carson City Nevada Sheriff’s Department, announce the arrest of Wilbur James Ventling, aka John James Stewart, in Carson City, Nevada. Ventling, 62, of Carson City, Nevada, was arrested on October 9, 2007, for the May, 1979 rape of a nine year old girl in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada.
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