FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: August 11, 2008 Nelson Hackmaster, Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Waco Division (254) 750-1570   The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force Arrests Fugitive Little League Coach   Waco, TX – 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. Jacobsen was a little-league baseball coach in the Little River-Academy area, as well as a volunteer firefighter, for the Little River Academy Fire Department. The investigation of Jacobsen was initiated when a 13-year-old boy made an outcry of a sexual assault against him at the Scott and White Hospital in Temple, on 06/10/2008. The 13-year-old stated that the sexual assaults began in mid-2007 and continued until June of 2008. During the ensuing investigation, three more children came forward, accusing Jacobsen of assaulting them as well. On 06/21/2008, before warrants could be issued for his arrest, Jacobsen fled the central Texas area with his wife, Marilyn Wesson. It was initially believed that the couple fled to the Houston/Galveston area. On 06/27/2008, the Bell County Sheriffs Office, Criminal Investigations Division, requested assistance from the LSFTF in tracking down the fugitive couple, who had fled the central Texas area. Deputy US Marshals assumed the case and began to follow investigative leads. When it was discovered that Wesson pawned some jewelry in a Laredo Pawnshop on July 1st, Deputy US Marshals also discovered that the couple has crossed the Port of Entry into Laredo from Mexico on that same day. Once it was determined that Wesson was actively assisting and funding Jacobsen’s flight, the Bell County District Attorneys Office also charged Wesson with Hindering Apprehension of a fugitive, and a warrant was issued for her arrest as well. The US Marshals Service also charged Jacobsen with Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. After following numerous leads, and exhausting every investigative resource, Deputy US Marshals developed information that confirmed the couple was in the Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, TX. Working closely with the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force members from the Laredo US Marshals Office, Deputy US Marshals developed a plan to ruse the couple out of hiding. Deputy US Marshals in Laredo worked closely with Mexican State of Tamaulipas Police to determine the exact location of the couple and make an arrest. On 08/09/2008, the Mexican State of Tamaulipas Police arrested Jacobsen and Wesson in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and the couple was expelled from Mexico after Immigration Authorities determined the couple had no legal status to remain in Mexico. Both subjects will be extradited back to central Texas to face charges. The United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas, LaFayette Collins said, crimes committed against children are intolerable and the US Marshals Service will stop at nothing to put these offenders behind bars where they belong.