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 Savannah,
GA - A man wanted by the Mobile Police Department in Mobile, Alabama for
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Murder was captured by the United States
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 on January 7, 2010.
Duane Jackson Jr., 22, was wanted by the Mobile, Alabama Police Department
for a 2008 murder. Jackson was indicted by the Mobile County Grand jury for
the murder charge in October of 2009. The case was referred to the United
States Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Mobile,
Alabama to locate and arrest Jackson. An intensive investigation was
conducted by the Gulf Coast Task Force which indicated to investigators that
Jackson was in the Port Wentworth, Georgia area. This information was in
turn given to the Marshals Savannah Office of the Southeast Regional
Fugitive Task Force to try and locate Jackson. An intensive three day
investigation revealed that Jackson was indeed in the area and that he had
recently been arrested by the Port Wentworth Police Department on traffic
charges. The investigation led Savannah investigators to an address at 6520
Highway 21, Lot 60, in the C &S Mobile Home Park in Port Wentworth, Georgia.
On January 7, 2010, Savannah Fugitive Task Force members, a Gulf Coast
Fugitive Task Force member, a Mobile Police Detective, and members of the
Port Wentworth Police Department converged on the address and arrested
Jackson without incident. Jackson was taken to the Chatham County Jail to
await extradition proceedings to send her back to Alabama.
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. In 2008,
U.S. Marshals led task forces arrested more than 73,000 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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