FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: April 29, 2008 Anton Slavich, Deputy United States Marshal Tyler, Texas (903) 590-1370 X 234   Fugitive Task Force to Host Training for Local Law Enforcement Agencies   The Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force, sponsored by the United States Marshals Service, is slated to hold two one day training seminars for state and local law enforcement agencies in east Texas. The first seminar will be held May 21, 2008 at the Collin County Community College in McKinney with the second to be held on May 22, 2008 at the Tyler Junior College (West Campus) in Tyler. The seminars will focus on cutting edge law enforcement techniques for tracking down and apprehending violent criminals who are on the run from the law and do not want to be caught. Law Enforcement Agencies interested in sending personnel to this event should contact the U.S. Marshals Office in Tyler at (903) 590-1370 X 234. Fugitives are often the most dangers of all criminals because they know they are living on borrowed time and they will do almost anything to avoid going to prison. A majority of fugitives have been to prison before so the thought of going back compels them to take chances that put law enforcement officers and innocent people in harms way. This makes a fugitive training seminar invaluable not only to local law enforcement agencies but to the community as a whole. The training seminar will cover all aspects of fugitive investigations from initiating a fugitive investigation to tracking down and apprehending international fugitives. Producers from the hit television show America’s Most Wanted will also be on hand to conduct a block of instruction on the procedures necessary to have a high profile fugitive investigation aired on their program. The Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force, formed in 2004, has offices in Tyler, Sherman, Plano, Beaumont, Lufkin, Marshall and Texarkana. The Task Force is made up of deputy U.S. Marshals and officers from several local law enforcement agencies all across east Texas. The mission of the task force is to combine the resources of the United States Marshals Service with state and local agencies to provide an extremely effective network of investigators dedicated to apprehending those fugitives that endanger the public.