FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2007
Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force |
CONTACT:
Supervisory Inspector James Ergas
770-508-2555 |
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Last Member of International Robbing
Crew Captured |
Atlanta, GA - At approximately 3:00pm on November 9, 2007,
investigators from the U.S. Marshals Service’s Southeast Regional
Fugitive Task Force and the Atlanta Police Department arrested
Vincent “Troy” Morris.
Morris, 19, was named in a 39 count indictment that included seven
murders and multiple armed robberies. Morris is named in 9 counts of
the 39 count indictment. Two of those counts include charges for
murder. Morris is also a Katrina evacuee and the youngest of those
indicted.
On Friday November 2, 2007 members of the U.S. Marshal’s Southeast
Regional Fugitive Task Force began working on the hunt for Morris.
On the morning of November 9, 2007, investigators developed
information that he was routinely in the company of a local female.
That same afternoon, investigators developed two possible locations
for Morris. Surveillance was established at both residences. Hours
into the surveillance investigators developed additional information
that allowed them to positively determine that Morris was in side of
one of the homes that was under surveillance.
An arrest plan was developed and investigators made entry into the
home where Morris was arrested without incident.
The Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) is a team
comprised of law enforcement officers from the United States
Marshals, as well as, more than two dozen 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
11,200 felony investigations. 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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