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San Juan, PR – In January, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRVOTF), with assistance from their partner agencies, arrested one man wanted by the State of Puerto Rico on multiple offenses, including kidnapping and rape, and another man who was on Puerto Rico’s 10 Most Wanted list for multiple counts of first-degree murder.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, working a collateral lead from the Puerto Rico Violent Offender Task Force, Nov. 3 arrested a former Puerto Rico Police Bureau officer charged with fraud and illegal sale of two PRPB-owned guns after he sold the guns to a criminal organization and reported them stolen. 

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force in Raleigh, North Carolina, working with the Franklin County (NC) Sheriff’s Office, and the Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRVOTF), apprehended this morning a man wanted in Puerto Rico on charges of first-degree murder and weapons offenses.  

San Juan, PR – On October 10, the U.S. Marshals Service Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRVOTF), acting on a lead from the District of Connecticut, successfully recovered an abducted minor.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRFTF) and members of the Puerto Rico Police Department Extradition Unit apprehended in Ponce Oct. 7 a man wanted in Ohio on charges of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force (FCRFTF) - Orlando Office and members of the Middle District of Florida, in collaboration with the USMS Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRVOTF), today apprehended a Puerto Rico woman wanted on charges of illegal deprivation of custody and parental kidnapping.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service District of Puerto Rico has added to its 10 Most Wanted fugitives list a man wanted by the Irondequoit, New York, Police Department on four charges of second-degree murder and charges of narcotics.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRVOTF), acting on a lead from the District of Massachusetts, apprehended Sept. 17 a woman wanted in Massachusetts on charges of kidnapping and endangering a minor by a relative. 

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force, working with the USMS Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force Orlando Division, Sept. 5 arrested a man wanted by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office in Florida for a premeditated murder stemming from a shooting incident Aug. 24 in Kissimmee, Florida.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force and Puerto Rico Police Department Aug. 9 arrested in Aguada a man wanted on state charges of illegal possession of a firearm and who is a suspect in a May 21 shooting incident that left a baby dead and two adults injured.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRVOTF) Aug. 8 arrested in Guaynabo a man with a state and a federal warrant on charges of physically abusing and beating his wife and of conspiracy to produce and distribute cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. 

San Juan, PR – On the night of Aug. 5, police officers from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) investigated a shooting in the Municipality of Carolina involving three men, two of whom were federal fugitives.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force (PRVOTF) and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), arrested in Caguas and Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, two men wanted in West Virginia on charges of conspiracy to produce and distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.

San Juan, PR - The U.S.

Hartford, CT – The Connecticut U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, Willimantic SWAT team and detectives’ division today arrested a man wanted in Massachusetts on multiple charges following a December 2023 shooting incident left one man dead.

New York, NY – Early this morning, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) with the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force (NY/NJRFTF), arrested the second of two suspects wanted by Puerto Rican authorities for attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in Maryland tracked down and captured April 24 a fugitive wanted in Puerto Rico on a federal arrest warrant for violating his bail conditions in a pending gun law case. 

San Juan PR – The U.S. Marshals Service’s (USMS) latest high-impact fugitive apprehension initiative, dubbed Operation North Star III (ONS III), focused on 20 cities over three months, has resulted in 4,455 fugitive arrests. 

San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) arrested one of Puerto Rico's 10 most wanted in Coral Springs, Florida, Oct. 5. 

New Haven, CT - The U.S. Marshals today located and arrested in Puerto Rico a man wanted by the East Hartford Police Department since 2017 on multiple sex assault and other charges.

Jose Sanchez, 44, was wanted for three counts of sexual assault 4th degree and three counts of risk of injury to a minor.