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District News
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December 14, 2008
- U.S.
Marshal G. Wayne Pike and Smyth County Sheriff David Bradley announce the
capture of Jason Betts and Mithrellas Curtis in San Antonio, Texas. The
arrest follows an intense six day manhunt covering multiple states and
involving numerous federal, state, and local agencies. Betts and Curtis have
been charged in connection with the December 8, 2008 murder of James Brown
at his residence in Chilhowie, Virginia as well as the assault of three
others in the residence at the time.
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November 14, 2008
- A convicted sex offender recently
profiled by the Virginia State Police and the U.S. Marshals Service
on WSLS-TV’s weekly segment “10’s Most Wanted” was arrested without
incident in Roanoke. George Raymond Howett, 43, of Roanoke had spent
the past twenty years incarcerated in the Virginia Department of
Corrections before being released on probation in January of this
year.
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October 03, 2008 -
The suspect in the city’s 11th homicide
of the year was captured by a dedicated team of task force officers
led by the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF)
based out of Roanoke Thursday afternoon. Deandre Miller, 20, of
Roanoke was captured by a swarm of task force officers outside an
apartment building in Jamestown Village on Queen Ann Drive in
southeast Roanoke without incident. Miller is suspected of shooting
Derrick Patrick Hobson, also 20, on September 25, 2008.
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October 02, 2008
- A woman wanted in the stabbing death
of a Roanoke man was apprehended in Pittsburgh by the U.S. Marshals
Service. Marcella Gail Martin, 53, is charged with murder in the
stabbing death of Lonnie Marsh at the American Motel on Williamson
Road Northwest. Roanoke City police responded to room 8 of the hotel
on December 20, 2004 and discovered Marsh’s body. Marcella Martin
immediately became a suspect in his death and an arrest warrant was
issued, but she fled Roanoke before she could be located.
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August 22, 2008 - Jerry
Thomas Tomlin Jr., who was wanted by the Newport News, Virginia
Police Department on 25 counts of felony forcible sodomy, 26 counts
of felony indecent liberties and 1 count of attempted felony sodomy
with a minor, was captured this morning at a residence in Lynchburg,
Virginia.
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July 03,
2008 - Keith Lee Burns, a violent sexual offender from
Montgomery County, Virginia was arrested Wednesday evening by members of
the U.S. Marshals, Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (FAST) in San
Francisco. Burns was wanted for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender by
the Virginia State Police.
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June 18, 2008
- A suspicious package addressed to the Clerk of Court in
Roanoke prompted U.S. Marshals to call in the Virginia State Police and
Roanoke City Police bomb units this morning. Out of an “abundance of
caution” a bomb sniffing dog from the Roanoke Police Department was called
in to inspect the package, which proved to be negative for explosives. Based
on the investigation, the package was opened without incident and deemed to
be safe.
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June 16, 2008
- A day of terror for one South Carolina family came to a happy ending
Monday night when a U.S. Marshals Task Force, assisted by the Virginia State
Police, the Giles County Sheriff’s Office and the Pearisburg Police
Department apprehended Robert William Custer, 45, Pearisburg, VA. Custer was
arrested without incident, even though he was considered to be armed and
extremely dangerous after abducting his estranged wife and their 4 year old
son in Lexington, South Carolina earlier today.
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June 11,
2008 - The 52 counties in
the Western District of Virginia are much safer this week as local,
state and federal law enforcement joined forces for a week-long
fugitive apprehension effort last week. FALCON, the acronym for
Federal And Local Cops Organized Nationally, soared into the
district June 1 and by the time the week was over 626 fugitives had
been apprehended and 930 warrants cleared.
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June 10,
2008 -
Following a four-year tradition of success in its national efforts,
the U.S. Marshals Service locally conducted another successful
Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally) from
June 1 – 9. Led by the U.S. Marshal, Operation FALCON 2008 netted
525 arrests within the Western District of Virginia.
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April 23,
2008 - The second of two murder suspects wanted in the death of
Barry Hairston who died March 30 from wounds he sustained in a shooting
incident at the Deep Blue Seafood on September 30, 2007 in Martinsville was
captured by U.S. Marshals from Greensboro, NC on Tuesday. Corey Demon
Turner, 30, of Martinsville was arrested without incident after marshals
spotted him leaving a residence in Burlington, NC.
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February 07, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals Service Blue Ridge
Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (BRFAST) task force and Lynchburg
Police Department Officers acting on a lead from Georgia, rescued a
5 year old girl who had been abducted in Georgia over four years
ago. Georgia investigators allege that the girl was abducted by her
maternal grandparents when she was one year old and authorities have
been looking for her ever since.
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January
10, 2008 - A New Jersey man wanted by the Roanoke Police
Department for Eluding Police, Failure to Appear in Court and being
a Felon in Possession of a Firearm was located on Tuesday, January
8, at his mother’s residence in Camden by
members of the U.S. Marshals New York - New Jersey Regional Fugitive
Task Force following a lead from the U.S. Marshals office in
Roanoke. Phillip Carl Martin, 37, of Camden was located in an
upstairs bedroom at approximately 6:30 am by task force officers.
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December 14, 2007
- A 38 year old Patrick County woman was arrested by the U.S. Marshals
Blue Ridge Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (BRFAST) task force and
Patrick County Sheriff’s deputies this morning on an outstanding murder
warrant from Daytona Beach, Florida. Juanita Lynn Liebman was arrested
at the residence of her mother in Ararat, Virginia.
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December
05, 2007 - A man who escaped from Dillwyn Correctional Center in
Buckingham County, Virginia on 11/16/2007 was arrested this morning at
an abandoned home located in Richmond, VA. The arrest was the result of
an intensive manhunt led by the U.S. Marshals Service from the Western
District of Virginia and the United States Marshals Blue Ridge Fugitive
Apprehension Strike Team (BRFAST) and was a coordinated effort between
the U.S.M.S and many local agencies.
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June
25, 2007 - A Lee County
native accused of attempted murder in Indiana was apprehended by a
U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Pennington Gap, Virginia. David
L. Stapleton, 45, originally of Lee County, has been charged with
attempted murder by authorities in Ft. Wayne, Indiana following a
bar fight in which Stapleton is alleged to have stabbed Charles
Minnix with a broken beer bottle multiple times.
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June
19, 2007 - Charles Lewis
Walton, 35, of Lancaster County, PA, was captured by a U.S. Marshals
Task Force, FBI agents and local police following a foot chase,
extensive search and brief struggle. Walton, who’s fugitive status
had been aired on the national television show America’s Most Wanted
this past Saturday, had been living at a residence in Scott County.
Tips from the show led investigators to the Hiltons area where
Walton was ultimately captured.
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May
21, 2007 - Almost
two decades of eluding law enforcement came to an end this weekend
for a Roanoke man. United States Marshal G. Wayne Pike and Roanoke
Chief of Police A.L Gaskins announce Thomas Manuel Paige, Jr., also
known as T.J. Paige and T.J. Swan was apprehended in Kingston,
Jamaica by the Jamaican officials and U.S. Marshals on Saturday, May
19, 2007.
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January 17, 2007 - Jail
space to house federal prisoners nationwide has become a critical
need for the country’s oldest law enforcement agency, the U.S.
Marshals Service. As the number of detainees soars nationally,
southwest Virginia is feeling the pinch as well. The U.S. Marshals
Service, as well as other federal agencies, are being told by local
and state governments that they have no room to house federal
prisoners.
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November 02, 2006 - Operation FALCON III was the third in a
series of national round ups led by the United States Marshals
Service and their network of fugitive task forces. The primary
targets, sexual predators and violent gang members. The players,
hundreds of officers specially deputized as Special Deputy United
States Marshals.
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