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 Atlanta,
GA - On July 18, 2007, investigators from the U.S. Marshals
Service’s Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force (GLRFTF) arrested
Eddie Rias, 65. Rias was wanted for escaping from the Muscogee
County, Georgia Public Work Camp on May 5, 1970. Rias had been
serving a five year term for robbery by intimidation.
Over the course of the last 37 years numerous leads have been
developed and followed during the Rias fugitive investigation. Rias
was captured through years of investigation that never stopped even
as the case was passed down from Georgia Department of Corrections
investigator to investigator through the decades.
Between 2005 and 2007, USMS Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force
and GA DOC investigators developed leads that led them to believe
that Rias was in the Illinois/Michigan/ Indiana area. On July 18,
2007 investigators from the USMS GLRFTF interviewed several
individuals in Hammond, IN regarding Rias. Based on that interview
they approached a residence on Columbia Avenue, Hammond, Indiana. As
they approached they identified a subject in the neighbors yard that
resembled Rias.
During the interview, investigators determined that, though the
individual identified himself as Eddie Young, he was Rias. Rias was
then taken into custody without incident and currently being held in
the Lake County, Indiana Jail awaiting extradition back to Georgia.
The Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) is a team
comprised of law enforcement officers from the United States
Marshal, as well as, 27 other local, state and federal agencies. The
task force’s objective is to seek out and arrest the regions most
violent offenders. Since the inception of the task force in
September of 2003, the SERFTF has closed over 10,300 felony
warrants. Annually, more fugitives are arrested by U.S. Marshals
than all other federal agencies combined.
Additional information about the U.S. Marshals can be found at
http://www.usmarshals.gov.
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