U.S. Marshals Service, News Releases, 2010

News Releases

February 08, 2010 - The U.S. Marshals Service Asset Forfeiture Division is hosting a preview and live auction of forfeited jewelry assets Friday and Saturday. A public preview will be held Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (CST) at the Hilton America-Houston Hotel, 1600 Lamar St., Houston, Texas. The live auction will be held at the same location Saturday at 10 a.m. (CST). The auction will also provide online bidding via simulcast at www.txauction.com. The live auction and Webcast features more than 400 lots of forfeited jewelry, artwork, coins, furs and collectibles. Auction registration and pre-bidding are available at www.txauction.com.

February 03, 2010 - A man wanted by the Spalding County Sheriff’s Department in Griffin, Georgia was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Beaufort – Jasper Multi Agency Drug Task Force, and the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department. Akim Jamal Miller was wanted by the Spalding County Sheriff’s Department and the Griffin, Georgia Police Department on seven separate warrants charging him with eight counts of Child Molestation, seven counts of Enticing a Child for Indecent Purposes, four counts of Statutory Rape, and one count of Party to the Crime of Aggravated Sodomy.

February 03, 2010 - The San Antonio Police Department, assisted by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force captured Steven Arreola, the last remaining suspect involved in the recent San Antonio kidnappings. Steven Arreola is being charged with 2 counts of aggravated kidnapping.

February 02, 2010 - A man wanted by the Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCMPD) was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and SCMPD K-9 officers. Taron Maurice Williams, 25, was wanted by the Savannah Chatham Police Department on a Murder warrant from an incident that occurred on November 27, 2009.

February 02, 2010 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force assisted in the arrests of suspects wanted in connection with a kidnapping that occurred on January 21, 2010.in San Antonio, Texas. The victims subsequently escaped from their captors. Since then, the San Antonio Police Department, assisted by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force has captured five of the six suspects, leaving one (Steven Arreola) still on the run.

January 29, 2010 - The U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended violent fugitive Johnny Jackson III, age 20, in Stockbridge, GA based on a lead from the U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force – Lorain County Division. Jackson fled Ohio earlier this month and several leads led investigators to focus on Stockbridge, GA where he was arrested.

January 29, 2010 - The United States Marshals Service in the Southern District of Ohio, the State of Ohio Adult Parole Authority, the State of Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI) and the men and women of the Gallia County and Meigs County Sheriff’s Offices conducted a joint law enforcement effort to verify the residency of local sex offenders in their counties. During January 25-28, 2010, Deputy Sheriffs, Deputy U.S. Marshals, Adult Parole Officers and BCI Agents teamed up in the third of a continuing Federal Operation known as Operation Neighborhood Watch Eastern Borders.

January 26, 2010 - The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested a man who is believed to be the suspect wanted in connection with the rape of a Pensacola woman on New Year’s Day, at a Wal-Mart Parking lot in Pensacola. Willard Ray Crowder, 47, was arrested at a security storage facility today by the Task Force without incident.

January 23, 2010 - Regis Reymon Madison, the last known suspect wanted in connection for the murder of a Pace man less than a week ago was apprehended today by the U.S. Marshals Western and Middle Districts of Louisiana Fugitive Task Force in Lafayette, LA.

January 21, 2010 - U.S. Marshal Michael R. Regan announced today that the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) arrested alleged rapist Nery Adolfo Perez-Duarte in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Perez-Duarte had been the subject of an intensive search by the U.S. Marshals Service. During the early morning hours of December 27, 2009, the Meshoppen Police Department responded to a 911 call of a rape victim with serious bodily injuries.

January 19, 2010 - The United States Marshals have arrested a Wilmington area man who was wanted by Palm Beach County, Florida for sexual assault of a minor. The Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested Angel L. Rivera who was indicted in Palm Beach County for sexual assault of a minor. The assault occurred in Boca Raton, Florida in August 2008.

January 19, 2010 - A man wanted by the Savannah-Chatham Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) and the Chatham County Sheriff’s Department was arrested by the United States Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department (SCMPD) Patrol Officers, SCMPD K-9, and a CNT agent. Herman Lamont Dessasure was wanted by the Savannah-Chatham Counter Narcotics Team on numerous drug related warrants for drug incidents that occurred in 2009.

January 17, 2010 - Early this morning, a convicted child molester who left a men’s shelter in Mesa in August 2009 with three other sex offenders, was returned to the United States after surrendering to authorities in Mexico. In August 2009, Randy Brown, along with Donald Temple, Matthew Ellsworth, and Manual Dominguez left the East Valley Men’s Shelter in Mesa where they were required to reside as a condition of their probation.

January 15, 2010 - Yesterday afternoon two fugitives wanted in California for Parole Violations and as suspects in a Homicide, were arrested in Springfield, Oregon by the U.S. Marshals Oregon Fugitive Task Force (OFTF) and Springfield Police Department (SPD). Robert Reil, a 30-year old male, and Amour Villamora, a 30-year old female, were arrested on “U” street in Springfield.

January 15, 2010 - A joint effort by the U.S. Marshals Northern California Fugitive Task Force, Fugitive Recovery Enforcement Team, and the San Francisco Police Department resulted in the arrest Wednesday of one of the San Francisco Police Department’s top 10 most wanted fugitives. Steve A. Bahr is wanted for failure to register as a sex offender and an additional sex offense in Mendocino County.

January 14, 2010 - This afternoon, two convicted child molesters who left a men’s shelter in Mesa in August 2009 were returned to the United States from Mexico. In August 2009, Donald Temple, age 25, and Matthew Ellsworth, age 27, along with Randy Brown and Manual Dominguez left the East Valley Men’s Shelter in Mesa where they were required to reside as a condition of their probation.

January 14, 2010 - A juvenile suspect, 17 years of age, was arrested today by the U.S. Marshals led Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). The juvenile suspect is charged with two counts of Aggravated Robbery, one count of Kidnapping, four counts of Aggravated Burglary, one count of Receiving Stolen Firearm, one count of Felonious Assault, and one count of Grand Theft Auto.

January 13, 2010 - The United States Marshals led Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested Manuel Guardiola Tuesday in Eagle Pass, Texas. Guardiola escaped from custody on October 20, 2009 while incarcerated at the Kinney County Detention Center in Brackettville, Texas. Guardiola was in custody serving a sentence of 420 months for a narcotics conviction.

January 11, 2010 -U.S. Marshal Michael R. Regan announced today that the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) arrested Esteban Merchan in York. Merchan was being sought by authorities in Hillsborough County, Florida as a suspect in connection with a triple homicide on December 28, 2009.

January 08, 2010 - Federal Parole Violator, Kurtis Armann, was apprehended by the Great Lakes Regional Task Force based on an investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service in Columbus, Ohio. After serving his prison sentence for Conspiracy to Commit Attempted Murder, Armann absconded from probation supervision in May 2009.

January 07, 2010 - A man wanted by the Mobile Police Department in Mobile, Alabama for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Murder was captured by the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Mobile Police Department, and the Port Wentworth Police Department in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Duane Jackson Jr., 22, was wanted by the Mobile, Alabama Police Department for a 2008 murder.

January 06, 2010 - The U.S. Marshals Service is currently seeking Rodney Lamont Brown, Thomas Artin Glaab, and Miguel Robles-Moya, federal prisoners who escaped today from the Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, IL. No details on their method of escape are available at this time.

January 05, 2010 - The U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF) arrested wanted fugitive Demetrius Briggs. Briggs, age 20, was wanted by the Richland County Sheriff’s Office and the Mansfield Police Department on numerous arrest warrants including attempted murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, aggravated burglary and domestic violence.

January 05, 2010 - Cathy J. Jones, Acting United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, announce the arrest of Shamar Davis. Davis was wanted on 4 Counts of Felonious Assault charges in Dayton, Ohio.

January 04, 2010 - Statement by Director John F. Clark, U.S. Marshals Service, on the shootings this morning at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas - I can receive no news more grim or sobering than word of a line-of-duty death or injury to our U.S. Marshals personnel, as was the case this morning at the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas.

January 02, 2010- 15 Most Wanted Fugitive Capture - The U.S. Marshals Service, along with local law enforcement officers, captured accused homicide suspect Paul Michael Merhige at a motel in the Florida Keys. Merhige was arrested without incident when authorities received a tip after the story was profiled on "America's Most Wanted."

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