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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2007
Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force
CONTACT:
Supervisory Inspector James Ergas
770-508-2555
   
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  .