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 Savannah,
GA – A Savannah man wanted for three charges of Sale of Cocaine was
arrested by the United States Marshals Service, Savannah Office of the
Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force on October 5, 2012.
Victor Holloway, 36, was wanted by the Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police
Department (SCMPD) on three separate warrants for sale of crack cocaine,
dating back to January, February, and April of 2102. Holloway was the last
person to be arrested as part of the SARGE (Savannah Area Regional Gun
Enforcement) unit investigation of the SCMPD and ATF. The Savannah Area
Regional Gun Enforcement Task Force is a unit comprised of SCMPD detectives
and ATF agents tasked with investigating gun crimes. As a result of the
investigation conducted by “SARGE”, the above warrants were taken out on
Holloway. The SARGE task force enlisted the aid of the Marshals Fugitive
Task Force to help find Holloway. Numerous leads were worked by the fugitive
task force and on October 5, 2012, Marshals task force officers saw Holloway
walking in the 4600 block of Herty Drive in Savannah and arrested him
without incident. Holloway was taken to the Chatham County Jail to await
judicial proceedings.
Annually, investigations carried out by the U.S. Marshals result in the
apprehension of over 36, 000 federal fugitives. More federal fugitives are
arrested by the Marshals Service than all other federal agencies combined.
In 2011, U.S. Marshals led task forces arrested more than 86,000 state and
local fugitives, which cleared over 113,000 warrants.
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, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles,
the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Department, the Liberty County Sheriff’s
Department, the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Department, the Beaufort County
Sheriff’s 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.
Additional
information about the U.S. Marshals Service can be found at
http://www.usmarshals.gov.
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