A fugitive wanted by the Savannah Chatham Metro Police Department (SCMPD) has been captured by the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, SCMPD Trap Unit and SCMPD K-9 on July 30, 2008. SCMPD referred the case to the Marshals Fugitive Task Force to locate and arrest. The Marshals Task force conducted an extensive investigation.

Christopher King, 23, was being sought on a warrant issued in Savannah, Georgia charging him with Murder. King is charged in the death of Michael Smalls at Harden and 36th Streets in Savannah, GA on May 9, 2008. Numerous leads were worked by the Savannah Marshals’ Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force. The investigation culminated with the arrest of King in the 1900 block of West Bay Street after he jumped from a vehicle on Millen Street and a brief foot chase he was apprehended by the Fugitive Task Force and the SCMPD Trap unit. Upon his arrest, he was caught in possession of an unknown quantity of suspected crack cocaine and approximately two thousand dollars in cash. This was a outstanding example of the interagency cooperation between the Fugitive Task Force and the SCMPD Trap and K-9 unit.

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 Savannah Office of the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force is a team comprised of law enforcement officers 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.