UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE ARRESTS
LAWRENCE EUGENE WYNNE

Midland, TX - The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, Midland Division, announces the arrest of Lawrence Eugene Wynne. Lone Star Fugitive Task Force investigators had tracked Wynne to a residence in Tyler, Texas. On Tuesday, January 16, 2006, the United States Marshals Service, Tyler Division, arrested Wynne for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration.

The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, led by the United States Marshals Service in the Western District of Texas, was already looking for Wynne on a state parole violation warrant when the Midland County Sheriff’s Office, a Task Force member agency, requested assistance in apprehending the fugitive for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration.

Task Force investigators developed information indicating that Wynne was living in the Tyler area and contacted the Tyler Division of the United States Marshals Service. Deputy United States Marshals and Smith County Sheriff’s Deputies located Wynne at a Tyler area home and arrested him without incident. An undetermined amount of illegal drugs were also found at the residence. Further charges may be pending in that case.

United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas, LaFayette Collins, said, “The recent enactment of the Adam Walsh Act has named the United States Marshals Service as the nation’s enforcement agency in the federal prosecution of sex offenders. 216 years of experience in fugitive hunting has well equipped the United States Marshals Service for this assignment and we plan to assure that each sexual offender on the run today will face justice for their crimes.”