Task Force Arrests Hundreds of Fugitive Murderers, Rapists and Robbers
Jim Kouri, CPP
April 03, 2006
While the District of Columbia's metropolitan area slept, a US Marshals-led task force quietly swept the city streets over a 3-week period clearing more than 300 fugitive warrants, according to the US Department of Justice.
The US Marshals-led Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF) coordinated its plans on March 6 to launch a Washington, DC-based fugitive apprehension plan dubbed "Operation City Sweep."
Members of the task force hit the streets arresting fugitives with outstanding warrants for charges ranging from parole violations to homicide.
From the first day, Operation City Sweep was destined to be a success with a whopping 30 arrests in a 24-hour period, according to US Marshals Service officials. By the end of the third week, the CARFTF had succeeded in arresting a total of 315 of DC’s most notorious criminals and cleared a total of 364 outstanding warrants. Among those individuals arrested were 17 wanted on sex offenses, 11 for homicide, 25 for assault, 125 for drug related offenses, 65 for burglary/robbery, and 121 individuals for other miscellaneous criminal offenses.
This operation accounts for the largest multi-agency mass arrest plan of its kind in the District of Columbia during a three week period. The countless hours of investigations, lack of sleep, and hard work of the men and women of the CARFTF have resulted in safer streets and neighborhoods of the entire Washington, DC metropolitan area, said one deputy marshal.
The Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force was born out of the Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000, to combine the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to locate and apprehend the most violent and dangerous fugitives throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
In fiscal year 2005, The Marshals Service cleared 38,500 federal felony warrants. Working with federal, state, and local levels, Marshals Service-led fugitive task forces cleared an additional 51,200 state and local felony warrants. The United States Marshals Service is the federal government’s primary agency for conducting investigations involving escaped federal prisoners; probation, parole, and bond violators; and fugitives based on warrants generated during drug investigations.
The Marshals Service is the custodian of all federal arrest warrants until execution or dismissal, and for more than 200 years the agency has specialized in fugitive apprehension.
Within the Marshals Service array of task forces includes the five Regional Fugitive Task Forces, such as the Capital Area, which were appropriated by congress in 2000. The purpose of these regional fugitive task forces is to combine the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to locate and arrest the most dangerous fugitives and to serve as the focal point for information sharing concerning fugitive matters.
According to Attorney General's office, they have done so with great success with the five task forces combined closing nearly 20,000 felony warrants by arrest in 2005, which included 663 warrants for homicide.
The US Marshals-led Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF) coordinated its plans on March 6 to launch a Washington, DC-based fugitive apprehension plan dubbed "Operation City Sweep."
Members of the task force hit the streets arresting fugitives with outstanding warrants for charges ranging from parole violations to homicide.
From the first day, Operation City Sweep was destined to be a success with a whopping 30 arrests in a 24-hour period, according to US Marshals Service officials. By the end of the third week, the CARFTF had succeeded in arresting a total of 315 of DC’s most notorious criminals and cleared a total of 364 outstanding warrants. Among those individuals arrested were 17 wanted on sex offenses, 11 for homicide, 25 for assault, 125 for drug related offenses, 65 for burglary/robbery, and 121 individuals for other miscellaneous criminal offenses.
This operation accounts for the largest multi-agency mass arrest plan of its kind in the District of Columbia during a three week period. The countless hours of investigations, lack of sleep, and hard work of the men and women of the CARFTF have resulted in safer streets and neighborhoods of the entire Washington, DC metropolitan area, said one deputy marshal.
The Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force was born out of the Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000, to combine the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to locate and apprehend the most violent and dangerous fugitives throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
In fiscal year 2005, The Marshals Service cleared 38,500 federal felony warrants. Working with federal, state, and local levels, Marshals Service-led fugitive task forces cleared an additional 51,200 state and local felony warrants. The United States Marshals Service is the federal government’s primary agency for conducting investigations involving escaped federal prisoners; probation, parole, and bond violators; and fugitives based on warrants generated during drug investigations.
The Marshals Service is the custodian of all federal arrest warrants until execution or dismissal, and for more than 200 years the agency has specialized in fugitive apprehension.
Within the Marshals Service array of task forces includes the five Regional Fugitive Task Forces, such as the Capital Area, which were appropriated by congress in 2000. The purpose of these regional fugitive task forces is to combine the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to locate and arrest the most dangerous fugitives and to serve as the focal point for information sharing concerning fugitive matters.
According to Attorney General's office, they have done so with great success with the five task forces combined closing nearly 20,000 felony warrants by arrest in 2005, which included 663 warrants for homicide.
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