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District News
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May 14, 2009
- A man wanted by NYPD for homicide was
arrested by the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task
Force based in Roanoke and the Roanoke Police Department. Hector
Barrington-Stephenson, 29, from Bronx, New York, was arrested
without incident in Roanoke. Barrington-Stephenson was wanted by
NYPD on outstanding warrants for homicide, criminal possession of a
firearm, drug distribution and felony assault from another alleged
shooting incident in New York.
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May 08,
2009 - A man wanted by Bedford County authorities for the
attempted murder of a Bedford City Police officer was arrested this
afternoon in Fayetteville, NC. Brian Aubrey Burnette, 31, was charged by
the Bedford City Police on April 17 with the attempted capital murder of
a detective who was attempting to arrest him on outstanding felony
warrants. Burnette allegedly stuck the officer with his vehicle while
fleeing.
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April 24, 2009
- A man wanted for murder in Palm Beach County, Florida was arrested
by the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF)
based in Roanoke and the Martinsville Police Department yesterday
evening. Michael S. Marquardt, age 38, formerly of Boynton Beach was
wanted by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office for First Degree
Murder with a Firearm, Armed Robbery and Accessory After the Fact.
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April 06, 2009
- Almost four weeks on the run for an elusive Southerland man came
to a crashing halt near Savannah, Georgia yesterday. Larry Wayne
Dodson, Jr., who escaped from the Blue Ridge Regional Jail in
Lynchburg on March 10, was captured after a high speed chase, crash
and foot pursuit that recovered the fugitive hiding in a shed at a
cell tower in rural Chatham County. With a task force
comprised of U.S. Marshals, Lynchburg Police, and Blue Ridge Jail
Authority investigators hot on his heels, Dodson was tracked and
arrested without further incident.
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February 20,
2009 - A man wanted in New Jersey
for two counts of attempted homicide was arrested this afternoon by members
of the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF).
Andrew Coates is wanted by the New York / New Jersey Regional Fugitive
Task Force (NY/NJ RFTF) and the Trenton, New Jersey police department for
two counts of Criminal Attempted Homicide, Aggravated Assault and Weapons
Offenses.
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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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