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Eastern District of Virginia

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  • March 28, 2013 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of Ronald Orville Garcia. Garcia was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service in Virginia after failing to appear for court in 1982 on drug charges.
  • March 08, 2013 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of Shane Daggs. Daggs was wanted by Richmond Police Department for multiple armed robbery warrants.
  • March 08, 2013 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of Brian Levern Gupton. Gupton was wanted by DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office for the November 2012 triple homicide which occurred in DeKalb County, Georgia.
  • November 30, 2012 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of Dachio Mechelle Johnson. On Nov. 8, a federal bench warrant was issued for Johnson for failure to appear for trial on an original charge of failing to register as a convicted sex offender.
  • November 28, 2012 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of Darrell Johnson. Johnson was wanted by Pawtucket Police Department and has been on Rhode Island’s most wanted list since the homicide of victim Joshua Burgo in July.
  • November 07, 2012 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of John Earl Gorham. The U.S. Parole Commission issued an arrest warrant for Gorham on Oct. 17, regarding the subject’s original conviction of sodomy, kidnapping and assault with the intent to commit sodomy. Gorham was convicted and sentenced to 35 years on these charges.
  • October 17, 2012 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the U.S. Marshals Service recipient of the Department of Justice, Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Heroism.  Inspector John Long for the U.S. Marshals’ Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force will be recognized today for his extraordinary act of courage and voluntary risk of life during the performance of official duties.
  • September 28, 2012 - U.S. Marshals Bobby Mathieson and Gerald Holt announce the capture of Anthony Robert Taglianetti, II. Taglianetti is sought as a person of interest by the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office in New York regarding the murder of Clymer Central School Superintendent  Keith Reed, Jr.
  • September 27, 2012 - Today, U.S. Marshal Robert W. Mathieson announces the results from Operation “September to Remember,” a joint operation targeting criminal activity in the Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights communities.
  • September 14, 2012 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of Tyrek Allen. Allen was wanted by Newport News Police Department and the City of Hampton on charges regarding two shootings which left one man dead and one injured.
  • June 05, 2012 - U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the arrest of Carter Tillery in Houston, Texas. Tillery was serving a 30 year federal sentence for armed robbery with a projected release date of September 30, 2036, when he was mistakenly released from state custody on May 17, 2012.
  • May 23, 2012 - On May 22-23, 2012, the U.S. Marshals Service, Eastern District of Virginia, Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, Northampton County Sheriff’s Office and the Accomack County Sheriff’s Office executed a multi-jurisdictional fugitive apprehension operation, dubbed Operation Spring Sting, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
  • February 03, 2012 - Information developed in collaboration between the U.S. Marshals’ Regional Fugitive Task Force along with members of the DEA, Virginia State Police’s Eastern Shore Drug Task Force and the Virginia Beach Police Department, led to the safe capture of fugitive Johnathan Manwell Johnson. The fugitive was located and arrested following an approximate 30 minute standoff with the posse of Marshals.

 
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