FUGITIVE’S 1 1/2 YEAR RUN COMES TO AN END

The Kansas Apprehension Task Force, a multi-jurisdictional fugitive task force comprised of the United States Marshals Service, Topeka Police Department, Shawnee County Sheriffs Department, and Kansas Department of Corrections located and apprehended David Lee Holmes JR. 23, on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. Holmes was apprehended by officers as he ran out the back door of a residence in the 1200 block of SW 25th, Topeka, Kansas. Law enforcement officers have been looking for Holmes on a federal drug indictment charging possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine) since July 2005.

Also apprehended at the address following a short standoff was federal fugitive Adrian Hopper, 27 who was wanted in connection with an indictment charging possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, use of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, and felon in possession of a firearm stemming from an investigation by the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Hopper is also wanted by Sedgwick County Kansas for failure to appear on a weapons charge.