Record set for arrests in a week, attorney general announces
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WASHINGTON - Nearly 11,000 sex offenders, gang members and other fugitives were swept up in what the Justice Department on Thursday called a sting targeting the worst of the worst criminals on the run.
Last weeks roundup, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, included Allen Marksberry, an unregistered sex offender in Rickman, Tenn., who was baby-sitting several young children when he was arrested on Oct. 24.
Also nabbed were Demetrius Avery Jackson, an accused cop killer in Birmingham, Ala., and Eric Dewayne Meneese, a Crips gang member, in Nashville, Tenn.
"In all, Gonzales said officials caught 10,733 fugitives including 1,659 sex offenders, 364 gang members and thousands of others sought on kidnapping, robbery, burglary, carjacking and weapons charges. More than 230 weapons were seized."
In upstate New York, some fugitives tried to hide in unusual places.
We grabbed one guy out of the shower, said Joe Ciccarelli, supervisor of the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force in New Yorks northern district. We found people hiding in between insulation, rolled up in rugs, inside of cabinets, inside of closets that a person shouldnt be able to fit in, but they end up fitting in and we have had to call the fire department to get them out.
Of the sex offenders nabbed, 971 had failed to register with authorities as required by law what Gonzales called the largest number ever captured in a single law enforcement effort.
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WASHINGTON - Nearly 11,000 sex offenders, gang members and other fugitives were swept up in what the Justice Department on Thursday called a sting targeting the worst of the worst criminals on the run.
Last weeks roundup, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, included Allen Marksberry, an unregistered sex offender in Rickman, Tenn., who was baby-sitting several young children when he was arrested on Oct. 24.
Also nabbed were Demetrius Avery Jackson, an accused cop killer in Birmingham, Ala., and Eric Dewayne Meneese, a Crips gang member, in Nashville, Tenn.
"In all, Gonzales said officials caught 10,733 fugitives including 1,659 sex offenders, 364 gang members and thousands of others sought on kidnapping, robbery, burglary, carjacking and weapons charges. More than 230 weapons were seized."
In upstate New York, some fugitives tried to hide in unusual places.
We grabbed one guy out of the shower, said Joe Ciccarelli, supervisor of the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force in New Yorks northern district. We found people hiding in between insulation, rolled up in rugs, inside of cabinets, inside of closets that a person shouldnt be able to fit in, but they end up fitting in and we have had to call the fire department to get them out.
Of the sex offenders nabbed, 971 had failed to register with authorities as required by law what Gonzales called the largest number ever captured in a single law enforcement effort.
Much more at link below..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15528737/