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  • September 29, 2008 - In October of 2007, the U.S. Marshals Service was asked for assistance in locating and apprehending fugitives Eileen and Perry Sharp. In August of 2006, the FBI obtained an Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution warrant for the Sharps based on felony warrants in the non-custodial abduction of Shanae Peterson. On Monday, September 29, 2008, positive identification was made and Perry and Eileen Sharp were arrested without incident.
  • August 29, 2008 - Deputy Marshals from South Dakota, Yankton County Sheriff’s Deputies and Yankton Police Department arrested an Arkansas man in Yankton after a manhunt that began in February 2008, shortly after subject faked his own drowning.  Matthew Alan Sheppard, 42, of Searcy, AK, was arrested on a warrant out of Arkansas for felony Fraud and Embezzlement, after receiving a tip from the U. S. Marshals Service Eastern Arkansas Fugitive Task Force that Sheppard may be hiding in the area.
  • August 18, 2008 - Deputy Marshals from South Dakota, Northern Iowa and Eastern Texas, along with Minnehaha County and Lincoln County sheriffs’ deputies from the Sioux Falls Area Violent Offenders Task Force, arrested a Texas man in Tea, SD after an intensive manhunt. Preston Dwayne Hightower, 38 of Sherman, TX was arrested on a U S Marshals warrant out of Eastern Texas for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution and immediately turned over to the state warrant out of Sherman TX for absconding from a 60-year sentence on three counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child.
  • May 31, 2007 - Brandon Theodore James (36), a major case fugitive wanted on outstanding federal charges of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution and several state charges including 3rd Degree Rape, was apprehended on May 22nd, 2007 in Marina Del Ray, California. James had been on the run for more than 3 years when he was captured by the United States Marshals Service led Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force.
  • April 17, 2007Fugitive, Daniel Davis, wanted on major narcotics charges since 1998 has been captured in Venezuela and returned to South Dakota.  Davis was being sought on both state and federal drug charges stemming from 1998 federal indictment for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamines and Marijuana.
  • April 05, 2007Fugitive Lyle Kenneth Youngman, a.k.a. Ken Youngman, a fugitive wanted on outstanding Federal Charges of Supervised Release Violations was apprehended early Thursday, April 5th in Rapid City, South Dakota by the Black Hills Fugitive Task Force.
     
  • April 04, 2007 - Fugitive Wanted on Federal Escape Charges and Assaulting a South Dakota HP Officer arrested by U S Marshals Service and Rapid City Police Officers.
 
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