30,000 Fugitives and Criminals rounded up by US Police and Feds in One Swoop

[Silver Knight]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than 35,000 fugitives across the United States were arrested in June as part of an annual sweep that teams the U.S. Marshals Service with local law enforcement in a summer push to clean up the streets, U.S. Marshals said Thursday.
U.S. Marshals director John F. Clark says unregistered sex offenders were a major target.

U.S. Marshals director John F. Clark says unregistered sex offenders were a major target.

Among the 35,190 fugitives apprehended during Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Operating Nationally) were 2,356 fugitive sex offenders, the service said.

"This might be considered the cream of the crop for the most violent felons that are out there. For example, we arrested 433 murder suspects," said U.S. Marshals director John F. Clark at a Chicago, Illinois, news conference.

In the course of the operation, the marshals also confiscated 82 firearms and 2,400 kilograms of narcotics. "Often when we find fugitives in hiding, we have other fruits of their crimes: firearms, drugs, some other evidence of some type of criminal activity," Clark said.

Unregistered sex offenders were a major target, Clark said.

"We highlighted one [case] here in the Chicago area. It involved an individual who was alleged to have molested a 9-year-old girl. He had violated his parole, and after an investigation he was located," he said. "There's evidence of further crimes that happened since he didn't register as a sex offender. This is typical of the type of individual who is out there, somewhere on the streets of America, and is often harming children or others."

One operation involved a Cleveland, Ohio, Police SWAT team and the U.S. Marshals, who were following a lead on Jeremiah Jackson, 29, who was wanted for murder, accused of shooting a woman in the back during a robbery.

On June 9, the team surrounded a house where an intelligence surveillance team said Jackson might be. Jackson was reported to be armed and dangerous. But Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Koerbel said once Jackson saw the team, it had its man.

"When he saw he really had nowhere to go, he gave himself up," said Koerbel. "He made the statement, 'I'm the guy you're looking for and I'll come right down.' "

In Cleveland, Koerbel said, the program was a success.

"We were able to arrest 1,211 people in a 30-day period. Five were for homicides," he said.

Typically, the U.S. Marshals office in Cleveland arrests about 100 fugitives in any given month. "This is just the type of operation that brings us all together and shows we're a force of one and shows the community we're here and this is a safe place to raise a family," Koerbel said.

Jackson was jailed on $10 million bond. He has not entered a plea on the murder charge, but his father, Willie James Jackson, told CNN affiliate WJW the police have the wrong man.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/09/us.marshals.arrest/

I wish they would do that here in the uk, we would get rid aton of illegals, remove gun crime, and all that stupid drug trade, i mean, the uk is about the same size as the state of washington, maybe smaller.

+SUPPORT FOR THIS BEING DONE IN THE UK !

[itsjustguy]

We all need that in every country.

[deluxulous]

Okay, first, lemme tell you one thing.

Cleveland is a fucking crime city, like Detroit or Los Angeles. It's nasty. I mean, lots of places in Ohio are. I live right next to a duplex ghetto, in my nice 2 story house with a yard and a dog. (happy bachelor too)
Who knows how much crimes are happening there? At our schools, even?

time for change

obama '09

[Dark Angel]

I was too lazy to read it , anyone mind posting a short comment about what SK wrote?

[deluxulous]

cops do sweep, arrest sex offenders and murdrars

+ drugs

+ Gunz

+more criminalz

[Zero]

Makes the people who consider torrenting stop considering it, and hiding in a box instead, it scares criminals when they arrest that many people, but it makes some people scared that they may have arrested innocent people.

[Silver Knight]

Makes the people who consider torrenting stop considering it, and hiding in a box instead, it scares criminals when they arrest that many people, but it makes some people scared that they may have arrested innocent people.

Doubt it...

[YohAngel]

Holy crap that's alot.