FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: July 01, 2008 Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force United States Marshals Service Inspector Katrina R. Crouse (404) 520-1843   U.S. Marshals Arrest Unregistered Sex Offender Wanted for Child Molestation   Atlanta, GA – On July 1, 2008, investigators with the U.S. Marshals Service’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) and the Atlanta Police Department arrested Eric Menefee on Climax Street in Atlanta. Acting on investigative information developed during the search for Menefee, U.S. Marshals SERFTF investigators managed to locate him residing in a shed he had turned into an apartment on the back of an associate’s property. Menefee, 37, is wanted by the Atlanta Police Department for two counts of child molestation and two counts of terroristic threats. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office also had a warrant for Menefee for failure to register as a sex offender. The child molestation charges stem from an incident that is alleged to have occurred while Menefee was babysitting the victim. Menefee was convicted in 1991 for a child molestation charge in DeKalb County, Georgia and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Upon his release from prison, Menefee was required to register as a sex offender wherever he lived, worked and went to school. He moved to Fulton County but allegedly did not register as required. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office subsequently secured a warrant for him in October of 2005 for the failure to register as a sex offender charge. In February of 2008, while unregistered, Menefee resided with a family that had children. Menefee would baby-sit the children while the parents went to work and is said to have taken advantage of his time alone with the children. Upon investigating this incident, the Atlanta Police Department obtained the child molestation and terroristic threats warrants against Menefee in April of 2008. That is when the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force began their hunt for Menefee. Investigators went house to house interviewing known family members and associates in an exhaustive search for Menefee. Today the hard work paid off. Menefee was safely taken into custody and is waiting to face his charges in the Fulton County Jail. The U.S. Marshal’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) is a team comprised of law enforcement officers from the United States Marshals Service, as well as, 27 other local, state and federal agencies. The task force’s objective is to seek out and arrest the region’s most violent offenders. Since the inception of the task force in September of 2003, the U.S. Marshals SERFTF has closed over 12,000 felony warrants. Annually, U.S. Marshals locate and arrest more fugitives than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined. Additional information about the U.S. Marshals can be found at http://www.usmarshals.gov.