CRESCENT STAR FUGITIVE TASK FORCE ARREST
SECOND TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA MURDER SUSPECT AT WEST JEFFERSON HOSPITAL
On the afternoon of
September 25, 2007, the U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of
Louisiana (EDLA) Crescent Star Fugitive Task Force (CSFTF) with
assistance from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested
Darrell Thomas Mays Jr., 30 years old, at the West Jefferson Medical
Center without incident. Mays was wanted by the Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Police Department on a murder warrant. He was visiting a patient at
the hospital at the time of his arrest. Mays has a prior
manslaughter conviction for which he served time with the Louisiana
Department of Corrections.
Investigators from the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Police Department believe
that Darrell Mays’ brother, Keyatta Corey Mays got into a fight with
an individual on August 11, 2007. He returned later that day with
Darrell to the scene of the fight and both are believed to have been
involved in the fatal shooting of Brandon Rainey. It is believed
that Rainey was mistakenly identified by the Mays brothers as being
one of the subjects that had assaulted Keyatta. CSFTF arrested
Keyatta Corey Mays on August 28, 2007, at the corner of Terry
Parkway and the Westbank Expressway (New Orleans, LA) at
approximately 9:00 p.m. The U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast
Regional Fugitive Task Force had been assisting the Tuscaloosa
Police Department in looking for both fugitives and developed
information that both suspects had returned to the New Orleans metro
area.
CSFTF is sponsored by the U.S. Marshals Service EDLA. Current member
agencies include the New Orleans Police Department, Orleans Parish
Criminal Sheriff’s Office, St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office,
Louisiana Probation and Parole, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office,
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, Bogalusa Police Department, U.S.
Coast Guard Investigative Services, U.S. Border Patrol, Bureau of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Social Security Office
of Inspector General. In the last eleven months the task force has
arrested over 600 fugitives in the New Orleans metro area as part of
it’s Operation Debris Removal. It has also been assisting the New
Orleans Police Department Sex Crimes Unit with many of its
investigations. |