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February 04, 2009
- Fernando Martinez, 36, of Kyle, Texas, was
arrested in rural Hays County, Texas by members of the Lone Star Fugitive
Task Force with critical assistance from the Hays County SWAT Team. Martinez
was charged in the United States District Court in Dallas, Texas with two
counts alleging that Martinez possessed with intent to distribute
methamphetamine and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking
offense.
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February 03, 2009
- The United States Marshals Service’s Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
partnered with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and other task
force member agencies in the hunt and capture of 28 year old
Reginald Adams in San Antonio. On Jan 17, 2009, Adams was
erroneously released from custody after a number of charges
(including a murder charge) had been dismissed.
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January 20, 2009
- The last of the 3 suspects wanted in connection with a
double-homicide that appeared to be leaning towards a cold case was
arrested on Monday, January 19, 2009. Melvin C. Avina, 33,
considered armed and dangerous was arrested by the Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force without incident.
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January 13, 2009
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Jerel Carter, 18, was arrested by the Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force and Pflugerville Police in Pflugerville, Texas without
incident. Carter was recently charged in Albuquerque, New Mexico for his
alleged involvement in a November 2008 gang related shooting that left Irvin
Samuels dead at the scene as a result of several gun shot wounds.
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January 12, 2009
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The United States Marshals Service’s Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force partnered with the Texas Rangers and the
Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office in the hunt for a murder suspect
that had shot three females.
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January 09, 2009 -
The United States Marshals Service
sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force spent Friday hitting the
streets of San Antonio and surrounding communities looking for and
apprehending multiple fugitives in various locations.
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December 14, 2008
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The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) assisted by the SAPD
and the Windcrest Police Department arrested murder suspects Jason Betts
and Mithrellas Curtis in San
Antonio/Windcrest area. The arrest and capture were based on leads developed
by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) sponsored Capital Area Regional
Fugitive Task Force, USMS personnel in Florida and LSFTF members in San
Antonio.
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October 21, 2008
- The United States Marshals Service
sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Farce (LSFTF) along with many
other agencies conducted a two-day street operation developing leads
and arresting sex offenders in Bexar County on October 19th and
20th. Over two dozen sex offenders have been arrested since Sunday
morning when the first teams hit the streets.
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October 15, 2008
- The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF)
along with the Repeat Offender Program (ROP Unit) of the San Antonio
Police Department (SAPD) arrested 18 year old Vance Keenan who is
accused of killing another individual with an Assault Rifle.
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October 07, 2008
- David Chenu, 30, an Austin area jazz
musician and leader of the David Chenu Quartet was arrested last
night by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in San Marcos, Texas
without incident. Chenu was indicted by a Comal County Grand Jury on
October 1, 2008, alleging six counts involving indecency and
aggravated sexual assaults against a minor child.
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October 07, 2008
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Aurelio Duran, 45, was arrested this morning by the Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force at approximately 7:00 am in Florence, Texas without
incident. Duran was charged in the Chicago area suburb of Round Lake Beach
in February of 2008 following an investigation into an alleged sexual
assault of a minor in 2001. Duran was charged with one count of Predatory
Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child.
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October 02, 2008
- For Dusty Gus Hernandez, the chase is
finally over. U.S. Marshals arrested Hernandez, one of Texas’ Ten
Most Wanted Fugitives, at a house in Arlington, Texas last night.
The arrest brings to close an intense manhunt that began on March
12th of this year when Hernandez fled town to avoid trial in Midland
County for two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and
one count of Indecency with a Child.
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September 29, 2008
- Rodney Lee Compton, 24, a recent
Pennsylvania parolee was arrested in the small hamlet of Castle
Rock, Washington at the foot of Mount St. Helens. Compton was
arrested without incident by U.S. Marshals, Castle Rock Police
Department, and the Vancouver Police Department Career Criminal
Apprehension Team. Compton, released from Pennsylvania Department of
Corrections on August 10, 2008, engaged in a multi-state crime spree
starting in Jasper County, Christian County Missouri, and Pittsburg,
Kansas.
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August 27, 2008
- Lone Star Fugitive Task Force members were busy on Wednesday as
they first arrested a man in Medina County that was a Comal County
10 Most Wanted and then later arrested a man in San Antonio that was
wanted by U.S. Marshals in Laredo.
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August 25, 2008
- Eight inmates, including a
convicted murderer and another man charged with murder, escaped from
the Curry County Jail in Clovis, New Mexico by cutting a hole in the
roof. One of the men has been captured by Clovis Police, but the
other seven remain at large. One of the missing inmates is Edward
Salas, who was recently convicted in the murder of a 10-year-old
boy.
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August 12, 2008
- Cornelius Craig Robinson, 48, who
failed to appear for sentencing for his involvement as the leader
and organizer of an Austin area mortgage fraud scheme, was arrested
this afternoon in rural Caldwell County a few miles west of
Lockhart, TX. Robinson was arrested this afternoon without incident
by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.
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August 11,
2008 -
The United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force (LSFTF) announces the arrests of 31 year old William Thomas Jacobsen
and 57 year old Marilyn McQueen Wesson. Jacobsen was wanted for Aggravated
Sexual Assault on a Child.
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August 02, 2008
- The United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive
Task Force (LSFTF) announces the arrest of
Federal Escapee Jose Guerra. Guerra was arrested by
Customs and Border Protection Officers at the Laredo Port of Entry as he
attempted to come back in to Texas from Mexico. Border officials had been on
alert for Guerra after it was learned he had fled to Mexico and U.S.
Marshals had obtained a warrant for his arrest.
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July 10,
2008 -
Santos F. Garcia, 22 of Fort Worth was arrested this morning by the Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force in Leander, TX without incident after Garcia
was identified as the alleged shooter in a homicide occurring last week
in Fort Worth resulting in the death of a 17-year old male.
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July 03, 2008
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Danny Lee Warren, Jr., 31 of North Henderson, Illinois was arrested
by the Bettendorf Police Department, Mercer County, Illinois
Sheriff’s Office and the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task
yesterday morning in Bettendorf, Iowa without incident. Warren
is the second Williamson County fugitive charged with sex offenses
against a minor arrested in the past 90 days outside of Texas based
upon outstanding charges stemming from the mid 1990’s.
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June
30, 2008 - The U.S.
Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force along with many local, state
and federal agencies combined their talents to arrest fugitives
throughout the entire Western Judicial District of Texas in a
week-long Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized
Nationally). The Western District of Texas encompasses seven
Divisions throughout the state that include El Paso, Pecos, Midland,
Waco, Austin, Del Rio and San Antonio. Each Division is responsible
for a number of counties. Each of these Divisions partnered with
fellow law enforcement officers June 22-28 to conduct Operation
FALCON, the largest fugitive sweep to date in the Western District
of Texas. This combined effort resulted in 993 felony fugitives
arrested during the target week.
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June 04, 2008
- United States Marshals Service (USMS)
sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) partner agency, the Bexar
County Sheriffs Office, arrested Rodulfo today at a residence in San
Antonio, TX. Herlinda Rodulfo is suspected of causing the death of a
young female victim in the Baltimore, Maryland area.
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May 07, 2008
- On 05/06/2008 the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force along with the
Temple Police Department, Harker Heights Police Department, and the
Killeen Police Department arrested 18-year old Damiee Kendrick
Johnson at an apartment complex in Harker Heights. Johnson and
28-year old Rico Doyle are both accused of shooting 18-year old
Tyrone Haskins this past September, then leaving him to die in the
street.
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May 01, 2008
- The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) sponsored Lone Star Fugitive
Task Force (LSFTF) requested the assistance of the USMS sponsored Pacific
Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force in the arrest of 28 year old Jimmy
Mendoza of San Antonio, Texas after learning he was hiding in California.
Mendoza has a significant criminal history to include Weapons Charges. Also
a confirmed member of the Mexican Mafia, Mendoza was considered to be armed
and dangerous.
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April 25, 2008 -
El Paso, TX - United States Marshal for the Western District of
Texas, LaFayette Collins announces the arrest of Rodolfo Medina
wanted in Juarez, Mexico for a 2004 Homicide.
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April 25, 2008 - The Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force arrested 21 year old Adrian Jesus Guia Jr. of Kerrville,
Texas after his expulsion from the Republic of Mexico. Guia is charged by
indictment in Kerrville, Texas for Sexual Assault of a Child. Guia fled the
Kerrville area before he was arrested and became a fugitive living in
Coahuila, Mexico to avoid prosecution in this case.
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April 24,
2008 - Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, 79, known to his followers as
Shree Swamiji, was arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport by
the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force as he arrived aboard a flight
from Europe. Saraswati was indicted by a Hays County, Texas Grand Jury
in April 2008 after a criminal investigation conducted by the Hays County
Sheriff’s Office resulted in a 20 count indictment alleging Saraswati
committed indecent acts with two children from 1993 thru 1996.
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April 22, 2008
- The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and the San Antonio Police
Department’s (SAPD) Repeat Offender Program (ROP) Officers partnered
to locate and arrest Indiana fugitive Joel Barrozo. Barrozo
had five felony warrants out of St. Joseph’s County in Indiana. The
charges ranged from Rape to Criminal Confinement and Robbery.
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April 16, 2008 - Keith Thomas Carreker, 53 of Bokoshe, Oklahoma was arrested by the Eastern
Oklahoma Fugitive Task Force, without incident this afternoon after it was
determined through local investigation conducted by the Lone Star Fugitive
Task Force that Carreker had fled from Williamson County in 1996 after he
was indicted for sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by
contact.
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April 14, 2008
- The U.S. Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
(LSFTF) arrested 20 year old homicide suspect Jacob Sotello in San
Antonio Monday afternoon after finding him hiding in San Antonio,
Texas. Jacob Sotello came to the attention of the LSFTF after the
San Antonio Police Department developed him as the prime suspect in
the shooting and murder of 16 year old Hector Chavarria.
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April 02, 2008
- The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) and the Boerne Police
Department captured jail escapee Esequiel Pena today in Boerne,
Texas. It is believed that on Sunday, March 30, 2008, 35 year old
Esequiel Pena escaped around 3:00 p.m. from the recreation yard at
the GEO Group Holding Jail in downtown San Antonio.
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March 20, 2008 - On
03/12/2008 the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force along with Task Force
Officers from the Temple Police Department arrested James Mendoza at
a hotel in Killeen TX. Mendoza was indicted by a federal grand jury
for 2 counts of Possession With Intent to Distribute (PWITD) Cocaine
and Weapons charges. Mendoza is also wanted for questioning
concerning death threats made against a Temple Police Department
narcotics officer.
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March 10, 2008
- The United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive
Task Force (LSFTF) along with the New
Braunfels Police Department (NBPD) SWAT team arrested Adam Torres in New Braunfels
Monday afternoon. Torres came to the attention of the LSFTF at the request of the
Seguin Police Department. Torres had recently gone AWOL from the
military and had accumulated criminal charges in connection with
domestic violence. Torres even broke into his estranged wife’s home
in violation of a protective court order in Seguin. Until today,
Torres had successfully evaded authorities both in vehicles and on
foot.
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March 04, 2008
- The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) announces the
arrest of Carnel Davis in Birmingham Alabama by the Gulf Coast
Regional Task Force. Davis was wanted by the Killeen Police
Department as a suspect in a murder that occurred on September 22nd
of 2006 in Killeen Texas. After exhausting all leads in the local
area, the Killeen Police Department contacted the Lone Star Fugitive
Task Force in Waco Texas for assistance. Information was developed
by the LSFTF that Davis was using his brother’s identification, and
was believed to be hiding in the Birmingham area. An investigative
lead was forwarded to the Gulf Coast Regional Task Force who
successfully located and arrested Davis without incident on February
26th 2008 at a girlfriend’s residence in Birmingham. Davis is also
wanted for questioning in an additional homicide that occurred in
Birmingham Alabama.
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February 29, 2008
- Ricardo Jaimes of Edinburg, TX, was arrested yesterday
evening by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force without incident. The
Task Force received information from the U.S. Marshals Service,
Grand Rapids office advising that Jaimes, the remaining fugitive in
a drug conspiracy, had fled from a November 2007 federal indictment
handed down in the United States District Court in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. Additional information indicated Jaimes would temporarily
be in the Buda area. The Task Force initiated surveillance in and
around Buda after it was learned what vehicle he would possibly be
in. After extensive surveillance throughout the week, Jaimes’s
vehicle was observed entering the Cabela’s parking lot where he was
surrounded and taken into custody.
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February 29, 2008
- Jorge O. Benavides of Buda, a fourth suspect identified in last
weeks kidnapping and ransom of a 74-year old Williamson County man
recovered in San Antonio, was arrested outside his home in the 300
block of Cody Lane, in Buda, Texas this evening at approximately
5:15pm by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force. Benavides was taken
into custody without incident after extensive surveillance by the
Task Force throughout the day culminated in Benavides’s arrest
shortly after he departed his residence.
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February 25,
2008 -
The United States Marshals Service (USMS)
sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) is pleased to announce that
the USMS sponsored Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force caught up with
two individuals suspected in the murder of Christopher Duncan. Deputy
Marshals from the Brownsville, Texas Office were out looking for this couple
based on leads developed Saturday in Corpus Christi after an additional
suspect, Robert Patrick White was arrested.
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February 20, 2008 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested 38 year old Hayward
Murphy in San Antonio based on information developed by the Gulf
Coast Violent Offenders Task Force (GCVOTF) in Laredo, Texas.
Hayward Murphy has been on the run since June 22, 2007 when he
failed to show up for a Federal Court hearing that was scheduled in
Laredo, Texas.
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February 20, 2008 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested 23 year old Travis
Robinson of Thurston County, Washington, at a Greyhound Bus Station
in San Antonio. Robinson was wanted on numerous felony warrants in
Washington. Robinson was charged on February 14th, 2008 with
Extortion, 3 Felony Counts of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, and
2 Felony Counts of Telephone Harassment.
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February 20, 2008 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) is pleased to
announce that 33 year old Bobby James Carr was arrested today by the United
States Marshals Service (USMS) sponsored San Diego Fugitive Task Force in
San Diego, California after being on the run since 2000.
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February 08, 2008 - U.S. Marshals from Houston, TX arrested
Jeremy Lynn Branum just north of Houston, at a mobile home park in
Magnolia. Branum was wanted for Sexually Assaulting a young girl in
Odessa in January, 2007.
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February 08, 2008 - U.S. Marshals and members of the Topeka,
Kansas Police Department arrested Geechie Devaine Templeton at an
apartment complex in Topeka, Kansas. Templeton was wanted for the
November 9th, 2007 murder of Gabriel Hernandez in Odessa.
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February 08, 2008 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested 51 year old Ruben
Vela in San Antonio late Thursday night. Ruben Vela was captured by
LSFTF members and San Antonio Police Department Officers to include
Repeat Offenders Program (ROP) Detectives and Patrol Officers. Vela
was the target of an investigation by the Waco Police Department.
Investigators developed an address for Vela in San Antonio and
utilized their reach through the Waco Division of the LSFTF to
capture Vela. Vela is charged with 7 separate warrants of Indecency
with a Child.
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February 05, 2008 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF)
along with the San Antonio Police Department's (SAPD’s) Repeat
Offenders Project (ROP) and Gang Unit arrested Elijah Mackey on
Federal and State Warrants. Elijah Mackey, 29, is no stranger to law
enforcement. Mackey has a criminal history that includes numerous
arrests for assaults as well as drug arrests.
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January 29, 2008
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When Homicide Suspect and Mexican Mafia Gang Member David Sauceda
escaped from the Bexar County Jail on October 28, 2007, he quickly
linked up with his girlfriend Angela Jaime and her two young boys
ages 3 and 4. On January 26, 2008, David Sauceda was arrested
near his residence in Mexico but Angela Jaime was not present.
On January 29, 2008, Angela
Jaime was arrested by United States Marshals Service personnel from
the Laredo Office at the Port of Entry in Laredo. Jaime will be
brought back to Bexar County today to answer her charges.
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January 27, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals coordinated the apprehension
and capture of a “15 Most Wanted” fugitive Saturday in Mexico. David Sauceda, a jail escapee facing murder charges, was detained by
Mexican authorities when a joint, international law enforcement
effort found him in Tangacicuaro, Michocan, Mexico.
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January 25, 2008 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested former Pearl
Mississippi Correctional Officer Jennifer Readus in San Antonio. In
2006, Jennifer Readus was a Correctional Officer employed at the
Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Mississippi. On
November 9, 2006, a warrant was issued for her arrest after Readus
failed to appear in Rankin County Circuit Court to answer an
indictment charging Readus with Sexual Activity between a Law
Enforcement Officer and a Prisoner.
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January 25, 2008 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force (LSFTF) along with the Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas
Rangers announce the arrest of homicide suspect, Juan Manual Garcia.
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January 11, 2008
- Today the United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested Louisiana fugitive Albert
Holmes (age 27) after making entry into a Seguin motel room at 5:45
a.m. Holmes is wanted in Ouachita Parrish, Louisiana, for Armed
Robbery, Kidnapping and Theft.
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December
17, 2007 - The U.S. Marshals Service sponsored Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) announces the arrest of 29 year old
Adrian Scott Mclendon. Mclendon was wanted on numerous felony warrants
by the Waco Police Department, Mclennan County Sheriff’s Office, Hill
County Sheriff’s Office, and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Mclendon was listed as one of the Waco Police Departments Top 10 most
wanted fugitives and has an extensive violent criminal history.
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December
12, 2007 - The United States Marshals Service
sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) announces the arrest of
28 year old Rico Doyle. Doyle was wanted by the Killeen Police
Department for the murder of Tyrone Haskins which occurred on 09/30/2007
in Killeen, Texas. Doyle has a violent criminal history including
arrests for armed robbery, weapons, and evading arrest and was
considered to be armed and dangerous.
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December 07, 2007 -
Albert Segura, 36, of Austin was apprehended by the Procuraduria
General de Justicia del Estado de Coahuila (PGJE) last night in a
Cuidad Acuna neighborhood without incident. Segura was expelled from
the Republic of Mexico after immigration authorities determined Segura
had no legal status to remain in Mexico. Segura was handed over at the
Port of Entry in Del Rio, Texas to the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
where Segura was formally arrested for a homicide that occurred in
Travis County last month.
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December
05, 2007 - Richard Pate, 50, of Georgetown was arrested in the
Costa Rican highlands outside of the capital city of San Jose, Costa
Rica. Pate’s arrest culminated a two and half year investigation ending
with Pates arrest in Atena, Costa Rica by Costa Rican authorities on
December 1st. Pate was arrested without incident and quickly deported to
the United States for having no legal immigration status in Costa Rica.
Pate stands charged in Williamson County pursuant to a June 2005
allegation that he sexually assaulted a child.
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December 04, 2007
- The United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive
Task Force (LSFTF) arrested 23 year old Kamari Harp. Harp was wanted
by the Temple Police Department for the felony charge of Aggravated
Robbery.
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November 14, 2007 -
The United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force (LSFTF) arrested 56 year old Arturo Abundis. Abundis was
wanted by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office for the felony charge of
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child.
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October 29, 2007 -
The United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force is offering a $2,000.00
reward for information that leads to the arrest of escaped accused
killer, David Sauceda.
Sauceda escaped from the Bexar County Jail by posing as another
inmate that had made bond.
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October 29, 2007 -
On Thursday, October 25, 2007, the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in
Midland was contacted by U.S. Marshals from Corpus Christi with
information that Bank Robbery suspect Richard Lawrence Randall may
be in the Midland area, driving a white Cadillac with North Carolina
license plates, and possibly armed.
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October 16, 2007 -
The U.S. Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested Austin resident Bravlio
Briones.
Briones is accused of getting into an argument with friends outside
of the El Tijuana Bar in Austin on October 15, 2007. According to reports, Briones stabbed one
man and ran over another man and then stabbed a third who tried to
stop the fight. Another report states that Briones was shot in the
arm, possibly by one of the victims.
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October 12, 2007 -
Fugitive Sex Offender Robert St. Dennis was arrested in
Wishram, WA by Deputy Marshals from the E/WA. St. Dennis was wanted by the
Copperas Cove, TX Police Dept. for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender in
Texas and by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.
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October 12, 2007 -
It seemed simple enough. If you’re on the run from the
law, change your name and move to a different city. It worked for
Jesus Thomas Bujanda-Saenz for twelve years. In June of 1995, he was
charged with violating his probation on a stolen vehicle charge.
Then in September of the same year, he was indicted by a Midland
County Grand Jury, and arrested for Sexual Assault. When he made
bond on that case, he decided that it was time to leave town and
change his identity. What he didn’t plan on, was that the U.S.
Marshal’s sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force would one day be
on his trail.
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October 12, 2007 -
Barry Craig Nielsen, 55, of Comal County was arrested without
incident yesterday in Austin by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.
In February of 2006, a joint investigation with the Comal County
Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
discovered child pornography on Nielsen’s computers at his home in
Bulverde, Texas.
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October 09, 2007 - Edward Tovar Jr., 17, of Austin, suspected of fatally
stabbing 24-year old John Reynero during an altercation in Southeast
Austin on September 30th was arrested on October 9th, by the Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force in
Northwest San Antonio. Tovar was taken into custody without
incident.
- October 03, 2007 -
The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force announces the arrest of sexual
offender, Christopher Lee Jackson. When Jackson went missing,
a lot of people became very concerned. With a previous conviction of
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, Jackson had been ordered by
the court to register as a sex offender in Ector County, and to
report any change of address to the probation office.
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October 03, 2007 - Members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force arrested a former husband and wife for Sexual Assault of a
Child. Both Monica Holland and her ex-husband Timothy Holland
were wanted by the Waco Police Dept. for a sexual assault of a child
which occurred in 2005.
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September 28, 2007 -
Vicente Jaimez-Hernandez escaped from the jail in Crystal City,
Texas on the evening of September 27, 2007. Jaimez-Hernandez
overpowered a correctional officer and took her shotgun. Jaimez-Hernandez
was serving a sentence of 376 months for armed carjacking at the time of
the escape.
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September 27, 2007 - Sandra Rosedale Gaitan, 24, of Houston
was arrested in Round Rock by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and
the Round Rock Police Department. Gaitan was sought by the task
force pursuant to a Capital Murder charge out of Harris County. An
investigation initiated by the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task
Force, a U.S. Marshals Service sponsored fugitive task force out of
Houston determined Gaitan fled the area after a murder where Gaitan
is alleged to have participated in the 2002 homicide of a 16 year
old male in Houston.
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September 25, 2007 -
Carlos Aguilera, 23, of Arizona was arrested by the Policia
Ministerial de Tamaulipas, Child Abduction Response Team in Nuevo
Laredo, Mexico. Working closely with their Mexican Law enforcement
partners, the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and the Gulf Coast
Violent Offenders Task Force out of Laredo developed information
throughout the evening that Aguilera had fled from Austin to the
Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo with a 23-month old girl who was
kidnapped Sunday evening in Austin.
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September 21, 2007 - On Sept. 18, 2007, USMS Major Case Fugitive, Pedro Pete
Hernandez surrendered to
law enforcement at an International Port of Entry (POE) in Laredo, TX.
Hernandez was wanted by the City of Waco Police Dept. for Homicide and the USMS
for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution.
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September 13, 2007 -
Emilio Rodriguez, 25 of Illinois was arrested this evening by the
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force. Rodriguez was sought after he fled
the suburban Chicago, Illinois area of Maywood after an alleged 2006
homicide. The 1st degree murder charge appeared to have targeted a
rival gang member.
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September 10, 2007 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) announces the arrest of serial
rapist Jose Luis Lopez. The LSFTF in Midland received
information from the U.S. Marshals Service in Lubbock that Lopez may
possibly be in the Midland area. Lopez had been linked to 9 sexual
assault cases in Lubbock and Midland through DNA evidence, and
warrants for his arrest were issued in Lubbock.
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September 08, 2007 - On September 7, 2007, members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force
responded to an exigent request from the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force regarding
Robert Capps, a suspected child killer. In August, Capps brutally beat his
6-month old stepson and 2-year old step daughter. The infant later died as a
result of the trauma. Realizing the inevitable, Capps fled W/TX.
- September 05, 2007 -
The
United States Marshals Service sponsored Gulf Coast Violent
Offenders Task Force (GCVOTF) in McAllen, Texas, arrested Michael
Steven Alaniz who was wanted on Federal drug charges out of San
Antonio. Michael Alaniz checked his luggage on a flight bound
for Chicago with a final destination of Cleveland, Ohio. Alert
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Screeners spotted
something suspicious in the luggage of Alaniz. San Antonio Airport
Police identified what appeared to be black tar heroin that was
heavily concealed in wrapping.
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August 29, 2007 - United
States Marshal for the Western District of Texas, LaFayette Collins,
announces the arrest of Christopher Moore. On July 17, 1997,
Christopher Moore escaped from Federal Prison Camp La Tuna in El
Paso, Texas after being committed to the custody of the Attorney
General for a period of 88 months. Moore was originally convicted
and sentenced for Possession with Intent to Distribute
Methamphetamine.
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August 27, 2007 -
The United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) announces that Homicide suspect Paul
Devoe was arrested by the United States Marshals Service sponsored
New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force (NY/NJ RFTF) in
Shirley, New York.
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August 16, 2007 - Seth
Hilliker, 35 of Austin was arrested this afternoon in North Hampton,
MA by the United States Marshals Service and North Hampton Police.
Hilliker was sought pursuant to allegations that Hilliker tried to
touch a 4-year –old girl inappropriately at a Half-Price Books in
South Austin on June 5.
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August 09, 2007 - Today
the United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force along with the San Antonio Police Department Repeat Offender
Program (SAPD-ROP) arrested Lorance Dontae Hill who is charged in
the Capital Murder of a Child.
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July
31, 2007 - The
United States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force along with the San Antonio Police Department SWAT and Repeat
Offender Program arrested Georgia resident Mario Villareal.
According to a complaint filed in Georgia, Mario Villareal assaulted
his mother over the course of the night of March 29, 2007.
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July
30, 2007 - The United
States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF)
arrested Jose Miguel Gonzalez late Sunday afternoon at the same
apartment complex where this case started. Jose Gonzalez is the
suspect charged with the Attempted Capital Murder of Veteran San
Antonio Police Officer, Richard Ruiz.
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July
27, 2007 - The United
States Marshals Service sponsored Lone Star Fugitive Task Force is
offering up to a five thousand dollar reward for information leading
to the arrest of the suspect charged with the Attempted Capital
Murder of Veteran San Antonio Police Officer, Richard Ruiz.
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July
26, 2007 - Late Wednesday
evening (July 25, 2007), the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, led by
the United States Marshals Service in the Western District of Texas,
arrested Terrence Chase Craft. Craft committed the felony offenses
of capital murder and attempted murder in San Antonio on July 17,
2007.
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July
12, 2007 - Jose Casarez
thought he could hide from justice by using an assumed name of
Arthur Hamelin and leaving the state in which his crimes had
occurred. This afternoon Casarez’s flight from justice ended when
the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested him at a construction
sight in San Antonio.
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July 09, 2007 - Tribute
in the Congressional Record By Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
Honoring the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF).
The LSFTF, which commenced its
work in May of 2005, is the principal law enforcement agency
responsible for fugitive enforcement in the Western District of
Texas.
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July
03, 2007 -
The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested Joshua
Owen after receiving information from the Dallas/Fort Worth-Fugitive
Apprehension Strike Team (DFW-FAST) that Owen may be hiding out in
San Antonio. Joshua Owen was charged with Aggravated Assault with a
Deadly Weapon. Owen is accused of beating a former girlfriend with a
handgun, sticking the handgun in her mouth and busting at least one
of her teeth with the gun.
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June
30, 2007 - The Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) arrested Victoria, Texas homicide
suspect Jesse (aka Chuey) Tejeda in San Antonio. An arrest warrant
was issued on June 14, 2007 in Victoria charging the 31 year old
Tejeda with Capital Murder in the beating-drowning death of Juan
Palacios 35, of Victoria. Tejeda is also an alleged member of the
Mexican Mafia and was considered armed and dangerous.
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June
14, 2007 - The Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force and the San Antonio Police Department’s Repeat
Offenders Unit (ROP) apprehended Edmond Johnson, one of the most
wanted fugitives from Kenner, Louisiana. Johnson, 23, was wanted for
numerous crimes in Louisiana, including aggravated assault on a
police officer; illegal possession of marijuana, crack cocaine, and
hydrocodone tablets; resisting an officer; four counts of battery on
police officers; criminal trespass; and disturbing the peace.
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June
12, 2007 - On June 7, 2007, members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
arrested sex offender Arron Eason for failing to register as a sex
offender, a violation of the Adam Walsh Act. Eason was originally
arrested in Hope, Arkansas, in 1998 for molesting a minor.
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June
11, 2007 - Diane Montana
had thought she had the perfect place to hide from authorities. The
home she was renting had a root cellar. A hole had been cut in the
floor boards and a dirt floor room large enough for an NBA player to
stand upright had been dug out. In the back of this darkened room
was a cutout ledge in which a person could hide. Montana’s plan was
perfect except for the fact members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force do not stop looking until they catch their fugitive.
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June
01, 2007 - United
States Marshal for the Western District of Texas, LaFayette Collins,
announces the return of Ismael Alfredo Terrazas-Torres from the
Republic of Mexico. On December 13, 1989, Terrazas escaped from
Federal Correctional Institution La Tuna in El Paso, after being
committed to the custody of the Attorney General for a period of 151
months.
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May 31, 2007 -
Beginning early on (May 14 – 25, 2007) Monday
morning and concluding on Friday, the West Texas HIDTA fugitive task
force led by the U.S. Marshals Service concluded a large scale,
multi-jurisdictional fugitive operation in El Paso. The operation
targeted area fugitives wanted for drug offenses and crimes of
violence.
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May 31, 2007 -
On May 30, 2007, Lone Star Fugitive Task Force officers from nine participating
federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies began an
intensive one-day operation. Operation Spring Cleaning focused on
the apprehension of felons either wanted for crimes of violence or
having a history of violent crime. The primary goal of the operation
was to put fugitives on notice that law enforcement will work
together to assure that they are brought to justice.
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May 11, 2007 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force along with
the Val Verde County Sheriff’s Office announce the arrest of Jose
Rivera, an escaped convict who was captured in Miami last week by
the Miami-Dade Police Department.
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May 11, 2007 - The United
States Federal Courthouse is guarded by some of the most high tech
equipment available to today; however no technical advancement will
ever surpass the high standard of vigilance provided by the men and
women who work as a Court Security Officer (CSO). Earlier this morning that dedication led to the
arrest of Jargen Kyle Thompson a fugitive wanted for aggravated
assault with a deadly weapon and burglary.
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May 08, 2007 - The Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force combined resources with numerous state and
local agencies in Frio County to go after fugitives charged with
state parole violations and other felony charges.
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April 24, 2007 - On
Monday, April 23, 2007, Texas State Senator Jeff Wentworth read a
resolution from the Senate floor of the State Capitol in Austin,
honoring the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and its accomplishments.
Over fifty law enforcement officers representing over twenty
agencies attended the ceremonies.
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April 20, 2007 - April marks the two year anniversary since
the inception of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force. During that time
the task force has led the nation in arrests.
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April 19, 2007 - Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force partner agencies in San Antonio charge and
arrest 22 year old Ernest Gonzales with the offense of Indecency
with a Child/Exposure. On April 10, 2007, a 15 year old
student from Fox Tech High School was on her way home from school
when this incident took place.
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April 18, 2007 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and the
San Antonio Police Department’s Repeat Offender Program (ROP)
partnered to locate and arrest Homicide suspect Luis Trevino. The
body of a woman found by a passer-by in a shallow grave is believed
to be that of a missing San Antonio area singer named Alex
Countryman.
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April 11, 2007 - Juan
Carlos Zambrano, 44 of Austin was arrested this morning in Chicago
by the United States Marshals Service, Great Lakes Regional Fugitive
Task Force. Zambrano has been a fugitive since being charged in
March of 2007 by Travis County for 2 counts of Aggravated Sexual
Assault of a Child, a 1st degree felony.
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April 10, 2007 - Adrian
Green and Darren Darden’s flight ended on a busy Beaumont Street
this afternoon. Two United States Marshals Service led Fugitive Task
Forces partnered together to arrest both Green and Darden.
Green and Darden are accused in the first murder in over a decade in
Converse, TX.
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April 09, 2007 - On
Easter Sunday, Fatemeh Angela Harkness was arrested at JFK airport
in New York. In May of 2005 Harkness was arrested by officials in Dubai
who had worked with the United States Marshals liaison to INTERPOL
and the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in their international quest
to apprehend Harkness.
Harkness failed to appear for sentencing after her conviction for
fraud and skipped out of the country.
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April 06, 2007 - The Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force announces the nomination of Special Deputy
United States Marshal Mark Benavidez as an America’s Most Wanted All
Star. Deputy Benavidez has been a decorated member of Bexar County
Sheriff’s Office for fourteen years, spending three of those years
assigned to the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.
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April 05, 2007 - The Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force and the San Antonio Police Department’s (SAPD)
Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) partnered to locate and
arrest fugitive Latin King Gang member Gilbert Rodriguez late
yesterday afternoon.
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April 03, 2007 - On April 2, 2007, Juan Felan was arrested
in Aransas County Texas by the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task
Force-Corpus Christi Division. Felan was wanted by the Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force on multiple counts of Sexual Assault of a Child.
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March 30, 2007 - The Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force arrested Jose Antonio Espinoza this evening
in Northwest Austin. Espinoza was sought by the task force after he
failed to appear for his June 2006 sentencing in the United States
District Court in San Antonio, Texas.
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March 20, 2007 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested
Robert Cruz late Monday night in a residential area near Meadow
Point and Royal Haven. Cruz was the last of six suspects captured
after a warrant for his arrest was issued in the recent beating
death of a man in San Antonio.
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March 19, 2007 - The Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force acting on information provided by the
United States Marshals Service led Southeast Regional Fugitive Task
Force from Atlanta, Georgia, arrested Derrick Charles Francois in
San Antonio. Francois is wanted out of Georgia on 5 counts of
Aggravated Assault by Shooting.
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March 12, 2007 - The Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force arrested those responsible for the deaths
of the two infant children recently discovered wrapped in trash bags
under a home in San Antonio. The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
capped one of the largest manhunts to ever take place in San Antonio
when they arrested Valerie Lopez and Jerry Salazar at a residence in
South San Antonio.
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March 09, 2007 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force is offering a
$5000.00 reward for information that leads to the arrest and
conviction of those responsible for the deaths of the two children
recently discovered under a home in the 1300 block of W. Winnepeg in
San Antonio.
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March 08, 2007 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, the Dallas-Fort
Worth Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team, and the Val Verde County
Sheriffs Office combined forces to arrest Ismael Ortiz III. Ortiz was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15 yr old female in Val Verde County. Ortiz has since failed to comply with
Registering as a Sex Offender.
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March 08, 2007 - In the
early morning hours of March 7,2007, the long run of a serial bank
robber came to an end thanks to the combined efforts of the Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF), the Dallas/Fort Worth Fugitive
Apprehension Strike Team (DFW/FAST) and the Dallas FBI Bank Robbery
Squad. William Michael Rhodes was arrested at a Dallas motel with
the loot from his latest heist.
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March 01, 2007 - The United States Marshals Service is proud
to announce that Zeke Brown is now reunited with his mother. His
abductor, Will Brown is in custody in Mexico. The United States
Marshals Service tracked Will Brown to Mexico City, Mexico to where
he thought he was in safe hiding.
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February 21, 2007 - On January 31, 2007 William Larry Brown abducted 13 month old
Ezekiel David Brown (Zeke). Zeke was taken from his mother in Evans,
Georgia, by his non custodial father, William Brown and two weeks
later the car used in the abduction, a 2006 white Acura, was
discovered in parking lot of the Triple C Steak House in Devine, Texas.
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February 11, 2007 - On
Saturday February 10, 2007 four year old Genesis Paredez found
herself being fought over by her grandmother and her birth mother.
The result was a grandmother being assaulted by her own daughter and
an intense manhunt for a missing four year old girl. Sunday
afternoon the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, led by the United
States Marshals Service in the Western District of Texas, reunited
Genesis with her grandmother.
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February 06, 2007 - On
February 2nd, 2007, United States Marshals in Corpus Christi
arrested Juan Ramirez on warrants issued by Ector County for
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and Indecency with a Child by
Sexual Contact.
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January 31, 2007 - On January 29, 2007 the Lone Star
Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) El Paso Division started a
week long round-up of state and local fugitives. As of Wednesday
31st, the LSFTF has arrested over eighty-five (85) fugitives and
cleared over a one hundred (100) state and federal warrants.
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January 30, 2007 - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, led by the United
States Marshals Service in the Western District of Texas, arrested Shane Kerner. Kerner, a
hurricane Katrina refugee, was wanted for Attempted Murder out of
Jefferson Parrish, Louisiana.
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January 30, 2007 -
San Antonio Police Department’s Repeat Offenders (ROP)
Unit received a frantic telephone call from a woman late last Friday
stating that her ex-husband from Fort Worth,
Juan Guzman, was threatening to come back to San Antonio and
kill her.
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January 29, 2007 - On
January 26, 2007, members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, led
by the United States Marshals Service in the Western District of
Texas, received a request for immediate assistance from the McLennan
County Sheriff’s Office to assist them in locating kidnapper Timothy
Williams.
- January 25, 2007 -
The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested Andrew Mendez, Jr. for the
felony offense of Indecency with a Child. Mendez is accused of
driving around nude and exposing himself to young girls attending
school in the San Antonio Independent School District.
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January 25, 2007 - On January 24, 2007, members of the Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force arrested fugitives Elmore and Michelle
Sadler. The married couple was wanted for federal narcotics
violations out of the Western District of Texas, San Antonio
Division.
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January 25, 2007 - A
career felon’s latest run from the law came to an end today at the
hands of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force. Rogers Marshall was
wanted by the City of Waco Police Dept. for Felon in Possession of a
Firearm, Burglary of a Habitation, and Terroristic Threats. Marshall
is the primary suspect in a recent series of violent crimes against
women.
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January 25, 2007 - One of the New Orleans Police
Department’s “Top 20 Priority Warrants” was arrested by the Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force. Anthony Sylve was wanted for aggravated
assault and drug violations. Sylve had been living in the San
Antonio area since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region.
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January 25, 2007 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested David Glenn Clancy for the
felony offense of "Retaliation". Clancy had blamed a San Antonio
area school when, resulting from an investigation stemming from an
anonymous tip, Child Protective Services recently removed his
children from his home.
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January 23, 2007 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, Midland Division, announces the
arrest of Juan Ramon Morales. In March of 2003, Juan Morales
kidnapped two 5 year old twin girls in Odessa, Texas and violently
sexually assaulted them both.
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January 21, 2007 - A
serial rapist’s long run of terror in the Central Texas area came to
an end Saturday, officers of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
arrested Christopher Jerome Howard at a rodeo in McGregor, TX.
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January 19, 2007 -
William Harrison Blackwell had changed his name, changed his look,
changed his friends, and relocated after the 1988 murder in Ector
County, Texas. All his efforts to avoid justice were ended yesterday
when the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested Blackwell outside
the Universal City apartment complex in which he was staying.
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January 17, 2007 - The
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, Midland Division, announces the
arrest of Lawrence Eugene Wynne. Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
investigators had tracked Wynne to a residence in Tyler, Texas. On
Tuesday, January 16, 2006, the United States Marshals Service, Tyler
Division, arrested Wynne for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender
Registration.
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January 17, 2007 - Fredral Latell Shade
is alleged to be one of the leaders of multi-defendant crack cocaine
distribution ring in the Permian Basin. Since his indictment on
October 25, 2006, Shade has been on the run from law enforcement
authorities. On Friday January 12, 2006, the Lone Star Fugitive Task
Force, led by the United States Marshals Service in the Western
District of Texas, tracked Shade to a residence in Grand Prairie,
Texas.
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January 11, 2007 - Dennis Wayne Harvey,
Jr., 28, of Austin was arrested aboard the Shrimp Boat “Michael
Lynn” off the Savannah, Georgia coast by the United States Marshals
Service, Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Untied
States Coast Guard, Station Tybee out of Tybee Island, Georgia.
Harvey had been the subject of an intense manhunt since a November
3, 2006 crime spree in Austin during which Harvey allegedly
carjacked 4 vehicles, shooting a victim and then fleeing the state.
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