Operation FALCON nets 35,190 fugitives in annual sweep

[BlueJessamine]

Source: CNN News

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than 35,000 fugitives across the United States were arrested in June as part of an annual sweep that teams the U.S. Marshals Service with local law enforcement in a summer push to clean up the streets, U.S. Marshals said Thursday.

Among the 35,190 fugitives apprehended during Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Operating Nationally) were 2,356 fugitive sex offenders, the service said.

"This might be considered the cream of the crop for the most violent felons that are out there. For example, we arrested 433 murder suspects," said U.S. Marshals director John F. Clark at a Chicago, Illinois, news conference.

In the course of the operation, the marshals also confiscated 82 firearms and 2,400 kilograms of narcotics. "Often when we find fugitives in hiding, we have other fruits of their crimes: firearms, drugs, some other evidence of some type of criminal activity," Clark said.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/09/us.marshals.arrest/

[Robb]

1. "All right! I won a free boat!"

I am a genius.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

2. They forgot to pick up Bush

cuff em boys.

[No Elephants]

4. They were looking only forward.

[awnobles]

3. My Brother

Got pickup up last night by the task force for Child Support in San Antonio. Not a sex offender, murderer violent ciminal, just broke.

[Robb]

5. Too broke to make child support payments? nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. So why does it take a annual sweep to get 433 murder suspects?

Isn't arresting a murder suspect something the local shur-eff should have done earlier?
Am I missing something?

[troubledamerican]

7. Operation Falcon, Operation Condor... morphing soon.

[tuckessee]

8. Practicing for an upcoming American "nacht und nebel" n/t