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  • November 19, 2008 - James M. Wahlrab, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announced the successful one year anniversary in October 2008 of the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) in Dayton, Ohio. SOFAST is a U.S. Marshals lead fugitive task force comprised of deputies and officers from 20 local and state law enforcement agencies and covers the greater Miami Valley which includes Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, and Shelby counties.
  • November 06, 2008 - The U.S. Marshals, Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) arrested David McGlothlin in Cincinnati, OH after the SOFAST unit received a tip putting McGlothlin in the Cincinnati area.  McGlothlin has been on the run for over 19 months and has been on the Arkansas Most Wanted List for over a year. McGlothlin escaped from a federal institution where he was serving prison time for a conviction involving multiple counts of interstate theft of motor vehicles.
  • October 14, 2008 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Edmond Luis Goodman, AKA “Dewey Goodman”. Goodman was wanted by the Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Department in connection with the 7-18-2008 murder of Jason White, 26 years old.
  • October 09, 2008 - The 9th Annual Crime Stoppers of the Year Breakfast was held in Cincinnati, Ohio. The 2008 Crime Stoppers Media Award was awarded to WCPO reporter Shannon Kettler. Shannon Kettler’s passion for the well-being of the Cincinnati community is evident in all she does, but especially in providing the general public with significant and important law enforcement updates on wanted fugitives.
  • September 02, 2008 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Alfred William Cash. Cash was wanted by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office in Muncie, Indiana for failure to register as a sex offender. Cash, now age 50, was convicted at the age of 32 for rape of a 12 year old girl in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma and has a lifetime registration obligation.
  • July 15, 2008 - James M. Wahlrab, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio (S/OH), announced the capture of fugitive Josh Dale Pointer (age 19) by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). Pointer escaped from the Hart County Jail in Hartwell, Georgia on July 13, 2008 while facing prosecution for numerous burglaries. Pointer was temporarily being held at the Hart County Jail while serving a 20 year sentence at the Washington State Prison in Davisboro, Georgia for multiple burglary and motor vehicle theft charges from three different counties in Georgia.
  • May 21, 2008 - James M. Wahlrab, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Robert McGee. McGee was wanted by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office for Felonious Assault (causing serious harm), Felonious Assault (with a deadly weapon) and Aggravated Robbery (with a deadly weapon). It is alleged that on April 24, 2008, McGee was involved in a drug deal in  in Dayton, OH that quickly went wrong. McGee attempted to rob the victim during the drug deal and allegedly shot the victim in the chest. The victim was left paralyzed as a result of the shooting.
  • May 16, 2008 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Shawn Brookins. Police allege that 23 year old Brookins shot a man to death in Wheeling, WV. Brookins is now in custody after being on the run for almost two months.
  • May 08, 2008 - The Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST), along with the Columbus Division of Police, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, arrested Jermaine Riley.  Riley has been wanted since November 2007 for Possession with Intent to Distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine and for using a firearm in the commission of the offense. Riley was recently named as a suspect in the murder case of 9 year old Kiyana-Shae Meilke.
  • April 17, 2008 - Keenan Parks, wanted on charges of Aggravated Robbery, has been arrested by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). The SOFAST is a team of law enforcement officers lead by the U.S. Marshals Service. The suspect was arrested in Columbus, OH without incident.
  • April 17, 2008 - The hunt for former National Century Financial Enterprises Inc. executive Rebecca Parrett continues. On March 28, 2008 a U.S. District court judge issued an arrest warrant for Parrett after she failed to report to the Pretrial Services Office near her home in Carefree, Arizona. Parrett was convicted on several counts of fraud on March 13, 2008 and was facing up to 20 years in prison on the more serious counts. Victims in the case suffered losses totaling $2 billion.
  • March 25, 2008 - James Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the arrest of Kevin Boykins. Boykins was arrested today, March 25, by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) in Columbus, Ohio. On October 25, 2007, the Jackson County West Virginia Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for Boykins charging him with Failure to Appear for Indictment.
  • March 12, 2008 - Charles Mike Law was arrested today by members of the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). The 55 year old was wanted by authorities for Felonious Assault. The warrant for Law stems from what U.S. Marshals Service Assistant Chief Cathy Jones called a “Drug deal gone bad.” On February 25, 2008 Law was attempting to buy illegal narcotics when he allegedly shot the narcotics dealer twice in the head at close range.
  • February 05, 2008 - Frederick Middlebrooks Jr. was arrested in Cincinnati by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). SOFAST is a team of law enforcement officers led by the United States Marshals Service. Middlebrooks was arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio, without incident. An arrest warrant for Middlebrooks was issued in Columbus, Ohio on February 3, 2008 for rape of a child under 13.
  • December 20, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Jayvone Pickens. Pickens was wanted by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina for a murder that occurred in 2002. Since that time, Pickens has been on the run.
  • December 20, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Allen Keyshawn Wright.  Wright was wanted by the Dayton Police Department for violations of his terms of probation and felonious assault.
  • December 06, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio and Toby L. Spencer, Sheriff for Darke County Ohio, announces the arrest of Zachary Lee Alder. Alder was wanted by the Darke County, Ohio Sheriff’s Office for violations of his terms of probation and wanted by the Randolph County, Indiana Sheriff’s Office for Sex Offender Registration Violations.
  • December 03, 2007 - James Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the arrest of Quinton Peterson. Peterson was arrested at approximately 2pm today by U.S. Marshals in Columbus, Ohio. On November 30, 2007, the Huntington, West Virginia Police Department issued a warrant for Peterson charging him with First Degree Murder and First Degree Robbery.
  • October 25, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the arrest of John Chapman. Chapman was wanted by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority for violation of parole. Chapman was on parole due to original charges of conspiracy and drug trafficking. In 1991, Chapman’s whereabouts became unknown and he was declared a fugitive.
  • October 11, 2007 - The United States Marshals Service Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) received the 2007 Crime Stoppers Law Enforcement Unit of the Year Award at the annual Cincinnati Crime Stoppers Awards breakfast held on October 10, 2007. Accepting the award on behalf of the task force and its multiple federal, state, and local law enforcement partners was United States Marshal James Wahlrab, Southern District of Ohio.
  • September 20, 2007Aster Brewer, a fugitive who walked away from a local Dayton halfway was captured in Georgetown Ohio by members of the Georgetown Police and the Brown County Sheriffs office after a multi county investigation spear headed by the United States Marshals.
  • August 09, 2007 - Kenneth Larry Belcher, II, age 30 and a former resident of Miami County, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of failure to register as a sexual offender. This is the first federal indictment in southern Ohio brought under the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act which is part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed by Congress in 2006.
  • June 28, 2007 - A man accused of the April 25, 2007 murder of Kenneth B. Crawford was apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Services’ Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) in Columbus, Ohio today. Jaquel Gore was arrested in Columbus.
  • May 29, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announced the arrest of fugitive James Wetherspoon, a native born Dayton resident who was wanted by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department in Birmingham, Alabama for possession of controlled substances and failing to register as a sex offender. The Sheriff’s office had solicited the help of the United States Marshals Service led Gulf Coast Regional Task Force (GCRTF) who determined that Wetherspoon had fled Alabama and headed back to his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.  Wetherspoon was convicted of Rape and Sexual Assault in Dayton in 1982 and has a prior arrest for failing to register in Montgomery County in 2001.
  • May 25, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announced the arrest of Kenneth Belcher. Belcher was wanted by the Miami County Sheriffs Office for failure to register as a sexual offender and by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority for escape and violation of his state parole. Belcher was on parole in Ohio due to an original charge of Rape.
  • April 24, 2007 - Ozie Mitchell Brime was arrested on the north east side of Columbus by the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST). SOFAST is a team of law enforcement officers led by the United States Marshals Service.  Brime was indicted in early April for allegedly firing multiple shots from a firearm at an occupied vehicle in Columbus.
  • March 16, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the arrest of Terry Thompson. Thompson was wanted by the Mississippi Department of Corrections for violating his probation and by the Rankin County (Mississippi) Sheriffs Office for failure to register as a sexual offender.
  • March 15, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the arrest of Eric Benson. Benson was wanted by the Houston County (Georgia) Sheriffs Office for violating his probation. Benson was on probation due to an original charge of child molestation.
  • February 27, 2007 - Jim Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio announces the arrest of Johnny Barreto on February 23, 2007. Barreto was wanted by the Mercer County, New Jersey, Sheriffs Office for failure to register as a sexual offender.
  • January 09, 2007 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of fugitive couple William and Lisa Cook. The husband and wife team had outstanding federal and local warrants for crimes committed in both the State of Ohio and the State of Kentucky.
  • December 22, 2006 - James M. Wahlrab, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, announces the arrest of Norris Lee Pass Jr. Pass was wanted by the Seattle, Washington Police Department as the primary suspect for a violent rape in 2005.
     
  • November 14, 2006 - A man wanted by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on two counts of rape and one count of sexual battery was arrested this morning in Medway, Ohio. Donald Elsworth Martin, 64, of Charlotte, was charged with two counts of rape, second degree where the victim was physically helpless or disabled, and one count of sexual battery.
  • November 02, 2006 - A man wanted in Columbus on charges of homicide was arrested earlier this morning in Dayton, Ohio. Terrell Love Givens, 19, of Columbus, was charged with killing Brian Williams in Columbus, Ohio on March 26, 2006.
 
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