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For Immediate Release |
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July 13, 2011 |
Marty R. West, Supervisory Inspector Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force (850) 942-8395; USMS Headquarters Public Affairs (202) 307-9065 |
U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Arrests Alabama Fugitive |
Tallahassee, FL - The U.S. Marshals Florida
Regional Fugitive Task Force (FRFTF) today announced the arrest of thirty year
old Marquez Cornelius Vaughn of Opelika, Alabama at an apartment complex located
at 1112 South Magnolia Drive in Tallahassee, FL. Vaughn was currently being
sought by the Opelika Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional
Fugitive Task Force in Montgomery, Alabama on charges of 1st Degree Robbery and
2nd Degree Assault. According to Alabama authorities, Vaughn was involved in an
Armed Robbery on June 19, 2011 in which Vaughn is alleged to have shot the
victim in the leg before taking approximately four hundred dollars in cash as
well as the victim's cellular phone. Alabama authorities also advised that
Vaughn had previously fired shots at Opelika Police Officers during a prior
arrest which prompted Vaughn's listing as Armed and Dangerous. Investigation by
Opelika PD and U.S. Marshals indicated that Vaughn fled Alabama shortly after
the shooting to the Tallahassee, Florida area where he was located hiding with a
relative at the Tally Terrace apartment complex. FRFTF members entered the
apartment during an early morning operation and first located two sleeping
juveniles on the ground floor of the two story apartment. FRFTF evacuated the
two females prior to confronting Vaughn who was located asleep in an upstairs
bedroom where he was arrested without incident. Vaughn initially told task force
officers that he thought he was dreaming when he awoke to find a room full of US
Marshals armed with rifles and ballistic shields standing over his bed. Vaughn
was transported to the Leon County Jail by task force members and is currently
awaiting an extradition hearing which will send him back to Alabama to face his
charges. Additional information about the U.S. Marshals can be found at http://www.usmarshals.gov. #### |