CRESCENT STAR FUGITIVE TASK FORCE ARREST SECOND TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA MURDER SUSPECT AT WEST JEFFERSON HOSPITAL

On the afternoon of September 25, 2007, the U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of Louisiana (EDLA) Crescent Star Fugitive Task Force (CSFTF) with assistance from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested Darrell Thomas Mays Jr., 30 years old, at the West Jefferson Medical Center without incident. Mays was wanted by the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Police Department on a murder warrant. He was visiting a patient at the hospital at the time of his arrest. Mays has a prior manslaughter conviction for which he served time with the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

Investigators from the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Police Department believe that Darrell Mays’ brother, Keyatta Corey Mays got into a fight with an individual on August 11, 2007. He returned later that day with Darrell to the scene of the fight and both are believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of Brandon Rainey. It is believed that Rainey was mistakenly identified by the Mays brothers as being one of the subjects that had assaulted Keyatta. CSFTF arrested Keyatta Corey Mays on August 28, 2007, at the corner of Terry Parkway and the Westbank Expressway (New Orleans, LA) at approximately 9:00 p.m. The U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force had been assisting the Tuscaloosa Police Department in looking for both fugitives and developed information that both suspects had returned to the New Orleans metro area.

CSFTF is sponsored by the U.S. Marshals Service EDLA. Current member agencies include the New Orleans Police Department, Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff’s Office, St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office, Louisiana Probation and Parole, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, Bogalusa Police Department, U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Services, U.S. Border Patrol, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Social Security Office of Inspector General. In the last eleven months the task force has arrested over 600 fugitives in the New Orleans metro area as part of it’s Operation Debris Removal. It has also been assisting the New Orleans Police Department Sex Crimes Unit with many of its investigations.