THE LONE STAR FUGITIVE TASK FORCE ARRESTS CHRISTOPHER JACKSON

MIDLAND – When Christopher Lee Jackson went missing, a lot of people became very concerned. With a previous conviction of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, Jackson had been ordered by the court to register as a sex offender in Ector County, and to report any change of address to the probation office. Another term of his release was that he not have contact with minor children. Ector County Probation Officer Roy Harrison learned that Jackson had disappeared, and may be with his girlfriend and her 12 year old daughter, which would be a violation of his sex offender registration and state probation. Harrison called the U.S. Marshals who head up the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, for help in locating Jackson.

The Midland office of the task force works with member agencies including the Midland and Odessa Police Departments, and the Midland and Ector County Sheriff’s Offices, to track down and capture violent offender fugitives. According to U.S. Marshals group supervisor Phill Maxwell, the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force places these cases at the top of the priority list. “Any agency who asks for our help in locating fugitive sex offenders immediately gets thousands of investigators working the case. There is nowhere in the country where these people can hide that we don’t have people looking for them.”

Task Force agents located Jackson within a couple of hours after picking up the case, and began surveillance to isolate his movements. When U.S. Marshals saw him getting out of a car at his girlfriend’s house in Midland, they, along with Midland Police approached the residence and arrested Jackson without incident. His girlfriend and her 12 year old daughter were also inside the house, confirming the concerns of the probation office.

LaFayette Collins, U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Texas said, “Our concern is to protect the community. Our families live here as well, so we have a personal interest in taking violent offenders off the street. We would not be able to do that without the cooperation and teamwork of the many state and local member agencies of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.”

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