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District News
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July 15,
2008 - James M. Wahlrab, U.S.
Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio (S/OH), announced the capture of
fugitive Josh Dale Pointer (age 19) by the Southern Ohio Fugitive
Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). Pointer escaped from the Hart County Jail
in Hartwell, Georgia on July 13, 2008 while facing prosecution for numerous
burglaries. Pointer was temporarily being held at the Hart County Jail while
serving a 20 year sentence at the Washington State Prison in Davisboro,
Georgia for multiple burglary and motor vehicle theft charges from three
different counties in Georgia.
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May 21, 2008
- James M. Wahlrab, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio,
announces the arrest of Robert McGee. McGee was wanted by the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Office for Felonious Assault (causing serious harm),
Felonious Assault (with a deadly weapon) and Aggravated Robbery (with a
deadly weapon). It is alleged that on April 24, 2008, McGee was involved in
a drug deal in in Dayton, OH that quickly went wrong. McGee attempted
to rob the victim during the drug deal and allegedly shot the victim in the
chest. The victim was left paralyzed as a result of the shooting.
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May 16, 2008
- James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio,
announces the arrest of Shawn Brookins. Police allege that 23 year old
Brookins shot a man to death in Wheeling, WV. Brookins is now in custody
after being on the run for almost two months.
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May 08, 2008
- The Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST), along with
the Columbus Division of Police, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, arrested Jermaine
Riley. Riley has been wanted since November 2007 for Possession with
Intent to Distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine and for using a
firearm in the commission of the offense.
Riley was recently named as a suspect in the murder case of 9 year old
Kiyana-Shae Meilke.
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April 17, 2008 -
Keenan Parks, wanted on charges of Aggravated Robbery, has been arrested
by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). The
SOFAST is a team of law enforcement officers lead by the U.S. Marshals
Service. The suspect was arrested in Columbus, OH without incident.
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April 17,
2008 - The hunt for former National Century Financial Enterprises
Inc. executive Rebecca Parrett
continues. On March 28, 2008 a U.S. District court judge issued an arrest
warrant for Parrett after she failed to report to the Pretrial Services
Office near her home in Carefree, Arizona. Parrett was convicted on several
counts of fraud on March 13, 2008 and was facing up to 20 years in prison on
the more serious counts. Victims in the case suffered losses totaling $2
billion.
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March 25,
2008 - James Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern
District of Ohio announces the arrest of Kevin Boykins. Boykins was arrested
today, March 25, by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST)
in Columbus, Ohio.
On October 25, 2007, the Jackson County West Virginia Sheriff’s Office
issued a warrant for Boykins charging him with Failure to Appear for
Indictment.
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March 12, 2008
- Charles Mike Law was arrested today by
members of the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST).
The 55 year old was wanted by authorities for Felonious Assault. The
warrant for Law stems from what U.S. Marshals Service Assistant Chief
Cathy Jones called a “Drug deal gone bad.” On February 25, 2008 Law was
attempting to buy illegal narcotics when he allegedly shot the narcotics
dealer twice in the head at close range.
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February 05, 2008
- Frederick Middlebrooks Jr. was arrested in
Cincinnati by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST).
SOFAST is a team of law enforcement officers led by the United States
Marshals Service. Middlebrooks was arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio, without
incident. An arrest warrant for Middlebrooks was issued in Columbus,
Ohio on February 3, 2008 for rape of a child under 13.
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December
20, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the
Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Jayvone Pickens.
Pickens was wanted by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office in South
Carolina for a murder that occurred in 2002. Since that time, Pickens
has been on the run.
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December
20, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces
the arrest of Allen Keyshawn Wright. Wright was wanted by the
Dayton Police Department for violations of his terms of probation
and felonious assault.
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December
06, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio and Toby L.
Spencer, Sheriff for Darke County Ohio, announces the arrest of Zachary
Lee Alder. Alder was wanted by the Darke County, Ohio Sheriff’s Office
for violations of his terms of probation and wanted by the Randolph
County, Indiana Sheriff’s Office for Sex Offender Registration
Violations.
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December
03, 2007 - James Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern
District of Ohio announces the arrest of Quinton Peterson. Peterson was
arrested at approximately 2pm today by U.S. Marshals in Columbus, Ohio.
On November 30, 2007, the Huntington, West Virginia Police Department
issued a warrant for Peterson charging him with First Degree Murder and
First Degree Robbery.
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October
25, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the
arrest of John Chapman. Chapman was wanted by the Ohio Adult Parole
Authority for violation of parole. Chapman was on parole due to original
charges of conspiracy and drug trafficking. In 1991, Chapman’s
whereabouts became unknown and he was declared a fugitive.
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October
11, 2007 - The United States
Marshals Service Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST)
received the 2007 Crime Stoppers Law Enforcement Unit of the Year Award
at the annual Cincinnati Crime Stoppers Awards breakfast held on October
10, 2007. Accepting the award on behalf of the task force and its
multiple federal, state, and local law enforcement partners was United
States Marshal James Wahlrab, Southern District of Ohio.
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September
20, 2007- Aster Brewer,
a fugitive who walked away from a local Dayton halfway was captured in
Georgetown Ohio by members of the Georgetown Police and the Brown County
Sheriffs office after a multi county investigation spear headed by the
United States Marshals.
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August
09, 2007 - Kenneth Larry
Belcher, II, age 30 and a former resident of Miami County, pleaded
guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of failure to register as a
sexual offender. This is the first federal indictment in southern Ohio
brought under the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act
which is part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed
by Congress in 2006.
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June 28,
2007 - A man accused of the
April 25, 2007 murder of Kenneth B. Crawford was apprehended by the U.S.
Marshals Services’ Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST)
in Columbus, Ohio today. Jaquel Gore was arrested in Columbus.
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May 29, 2007 -
James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for
the Southern District of Ohio, announced the arrest of fugitive James
Wetherspoon, a native
born Dayton resident who was wanted by the Jefferson County
Sheriff’s Department in Birmingham, Alabama for possession of
controlled substances and failing to register as a sex offender. The
Sheriff’s office had solicited the help of the United States
Marshals Service led Gulf Coast Regional Task Force (GCRTF) who
determined that Wetherspoon had fled Alabama and headed back to his
hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Wetherspoon was convicted of Rape and
Sexual Assault in Dayton in 1982 and has a prior arrest for failing
to register in Montgomery County in 2001.
- May 25,
2007 - James M. Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announced the
arrest of Kenneth Belcher. Belcher was wanted by the Miami County
Sheriffs Office for failure to register as a sexual offender and by the
Ohio Adult Parole Authority for escape and violation of his state
parole. Belcher was on parole in Ohio due to an original charge of Rape.
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April 24,
2007 - Ozie Mitchell Brime
was arrested on the north east side of Columbus by the Southern Ohio
Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). SOFAST is a team of law
enforcement officers led by the United States Marshals Service.
Brime was indicted in early April for allegedly firing multiple
shots from a firearm at an occupied vehicle in Columbus.
- March 16,
2007 - James M. Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the
arrest of Terry Thompson. Thompson was wanted by the Mississippi
Department of Corrections for violating his probation and by the Rankin
County (Mississippi) Sheriffs Office for failure to register as a sexual
offender.
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March 15,
2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern
District of Ohio announces the arrest of Eric Benson. Benson was wanted
by the Houston County (Georgia) Sheriffs Office for violating his
probation. Benson was on probation due to an original charge of child
molestation.
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February
27, 2007 - Jim Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the
arrest of Johnny Barreto on February 23, 2007. Barreto was wanted by the
Mercer County, New Jersey, Sheriffs Office for failure to register as a
sexual offender.
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January
09, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the
arrest of fugitive couple William and Lisa Cook. The husband and wife
team had outstanding federal and local warrants for crimes committed in
both the State of Ohio and the State of Kentucky.
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December
22, 2006 - James M. Wahlrab,
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the
arrest of Norris Lee Pass Jr. Pass was wanted by the Seattle, Washington
Police Department as the primary suspect for a violent rape in 2005.
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November
14, 2006 - A man wanted by
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on two counts of rape and one
count of sexual battery was arrested this morning in Medway, Ohio.
Donald Elsworth Martin, 64, of Charlotte, was charged with two counts of
rape, second degree where the victim was physically helpless or
disabled, and one count of sexual battery.
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November
02, 2006 - A man wanted in Columbus
on charges of homicide was arrested earlier this morning in Dayton,
Ohio.
Terrell Love Givens, 19, of Columbus, was charged with killing Brian
Williams in Columbus, Ohio on March 26, 2006.
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