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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 (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.

**UPDATE: Deshawn Davis was Apprehended on August 5, 2024**

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Miami, FL – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force (FCRFTF), in coordination with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, April 10, located and safely arrested a man wanted for possession of child pornography.  

Washington, DC – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) is asking the public’s help in locating a Canadian man wanted by Ontario authorities for his role in a January 2022 kidnapping and murder of a woman, and by U.S. authorities for a May 2023 murder in Florida.

Atlanta, GA - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) and Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force (FCRFTF), in coordination with the West Palm Beach Police Department, on February 23, 2024, located and safely arrested a man wanted by the West Palm Beach Police Department for second-degree murder with a firearm.   

Miami, FL – Today, members of the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Marlon Benn. Benn was wanted by the Cleveland Division of Police for aggravated murder and felonious assault.

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

Columbus, OH – The U.S. Marshals Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested fugitive Joseph Bryan Howard on September 25, 2023, on an outstanding arrest warrant from Columbus.

Martinsburg, WV – The U.S. Marshals Service recovered a missing West Virginia child in Tampa, Florida, and arrested the fugitive wanted in connection with the child’s disappearance.  

Denver, CO – After nearly five years on the run and a search that has spanned the country, a fugitive wanted on charges of fraud and escape since 2018 is back in custody.  

Titusville, FL – On April 20, 2023, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and members of the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force ended a violent fugitive’s run from the law.

Joseph Walker, 29, was wanted by the state of Virginia in relation to a violent murder. 

Ocala, FL – This morning, members of the U.S. Marshals, Florida-Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Matthew Rutter, 29. Rutter was wanted by the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office and Conneaut Police Department for rape and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

Memphis, TN – Malik Christopher, 26, of Florida, who was wanted by the Miramar (Florida) Police Department for Vehicular Homicide was captured by U.S. Marshals in Memphis yesterday. Tyreece Miller, U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today.

Orlando, FL – After 15 years, a Florida man accused of impregnating a minor has been taken into custody in Massachusetts.

Jacksonville, FL - Danta Thomas was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida by U.S. Marshals from the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force (FCRFTF). Thomas was wanted on a felony arrest warrant out of Oklahoma County, OK for Rape in the 1st Degree and Attempted Rape in the 1st Degree.

Detroit, MI – U.S. Marshals in the Eastern District of Michigan, working with the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Florida Regional Task Force, Thursday recovered four children ranging in age from 3-10 who had been kidnapped by their father, a long-haul trucker.

Fort Myers, FL - The U.S. Marshals Service Mexico Foreign Field Office and the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force from Fort Myers partnered with state and local agencies to locate and recover two missing and endangered children in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, June 23.