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U.S. Marshals sweep apprehends 10,733 fugitives
POSTED: 9:46 a.m. EST, November 2, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 11,000 fugitives, including sex offenders, gang members and others wanted on a variety of charges from kidnapping to weapons offenses, were swept up last week in a 24-state operation, the Justice Department was to announce Thursday.
Among the fugitives caught were 1,659 sex offenders -- including 971 who failed to register with authorities as required by law -- in what the government called the largest number ever captured in a single law enforcement effort.
The sweep, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, "has made our nation's neighborhoods and children safer by taking off the streets some of the worst sex offenders, violent felons and gang members," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a prepared statement.
Gonzales was to discuss the roundup, code-named Operation Falcon III, at a news conference Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/11/02/fugitive.roundup.ap/index.html
POSTED: 9:46 a.m. EST, November 2, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 11,000 fugitives, including sex offenders, gang members and others wanted on a variety of charges from kidnapping to weapons offenses, were swept up last week in a 24-state operation, the Justice Department was to announce Thursday.
Among the fugitives caught were 1,659 sex offenders -- including 971 who failed to register with authorities as required by law -- in what the government called the largest number ever captured in a single law enforcement effort.
The sweep, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, "has made our nation's neighborhoods and children safer by taking off the streets some of the worst sex offenders, violent felons and gang members," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a prepared statement.
Gonzales was to discuss the roundup, code-named Operation Falcon III, at a news conference Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/11/02/fugitive.roundup.ap/index.html
