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 After
sixteen months on the run, a man wanted by the Evans County Sheriff’s
Department in Claxton, Georgia has been arrested by the U.S. Marshals
South Carolina Operation Intercept Fugitive Task Force in Bishopville,
South Carolina on September 22, 2009.
Roger Terrell Wilkes, 21, was being sought a state warrant for Failure
to Appear. His original charges were for Armed Robbery and Aggravated
Assault from 2007. Wilkes failed to appear in court in Evans County in
May of 2008 and the warrant for Failure to appear was issued at that
time. The case was referred to the Savannah Office of the U.S. Marshals
Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force to find him. Numerous leads were
worked in this case. Leads were sent to Marshals Fugitive Task Forces in
both North Carolina and South Carolina over the last sixteen months.
Additional information was obtained in September of 2009 and forwarded
to the U.S. Marshals Operation Intercept Fugitive Task Force in
Columbia, South Carolina. Operation Intercept investigators went to the
address provided by the Savannah Task Force. The address was 74 Bluebird
Lane in Bishopville, South Carolina. Operation Intercept investigators
arrested Wilkes at the above address without incident. Wilkes was taken
to the Lexington County Jail to await extradition back to Evans County,
Georgia.
Annually, investigations carried out by the U.S. Marshals result in the
apprehension of approximately 36, 000 federal fugitives. More federal
fugitives are arrested by the Marshals Service than all other federal
agencies combined.
The Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force has three offices:
Atlanta, Macon, and Savannah. The task force covers the whole state of
Georgia. The Savannah Office of the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task
Force is a team comprised of investigators from the Georgia Department
of Corrections, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Department, the Savannah
Chatham Metropolitan Police Department and the United States Marshals
Service. The task force objective is to seek out and arrest fugitives
charged with violent crimes, drug crimes, sex offenders, and other
felonies. Last year, U.S. Marshals Task Forces arrested more than 58,600
state and local fugitives on felony charges.
Additional information about the U.S. Marshals can be found at
http://www.usmarshals.gov.
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