U.S. Marshals in NY Arrest Former Puerto Rico Police Officer Wanted for Fraud, Illegal Gun Sale

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. 

Luis Daniel Cepeda-Davila, 46, was taken into custody without incident by the NY/NJRFTF Syracuse Division at an Aldi distribution center in Tully shortly before 9 a.m. and booked into the Onondaga County Jail as a fugitive from justice, awaiting extradition to Puerto Rico. 

“This arrest is a prime example of the collaboration of U.S. Marshals task forces working smartly to share information to safely and quickly take into custody a dangerous fugitive,” said Wilmer Ocasio-Ibarra, U.S. Marshal for the District of Puerto Rico. “I commend the rapid response of our task force in Syracuse acting on information from our Puerto Rico task force. We will not allow criminals to act with impunity and try to evade justice.”

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) encourages the community to continue to collaborate with our deputies on tips that help find the whereabouts of a fugitive by contacting our local office at (787) 766-6297, calling the U.S. Marshals Service Communication Center at 1 (800) 336-0102, or submitting tips using the USMS Tips App. You can also contact the case agents at (787) 306-9411 or (787) 412-1462.

The New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force (NY/NJ RFTF) begun operations in April of 2002 and was the first Regional Fugitive Task Force to become fully operational following the Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000. The NY/NJ RFTF was the flagship that has allowed seven other Regional Fugitive Task Forces to be created across the country. With partnership agreements with over 98 federal, state, or local agencies and 13 fully operational offices, the NY/NJ RFTF has been able to successfully apprehend over 101,900 fugitives since inception. The New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force has made an extraordinary impact on the apprehension of the region’s most dangerous and violent fugitives striving to make their communities safer.