Crime Alerts: Arthur Eugene Morgan, III

Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Homicide

Arthur E. Morgan III, is wanted for his alleged involvement in the death of his two-year-old daughter. On November 22, 2011, the body of a two-year-old child, still strapped in her car seat, was found partially submerged in a stream in Shark River Park in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The stream runs beneath an overpass, suggesting that the child and the car seat were thrown from the overpass.

Morgan was supposed to return the child to her mother on September 21st, following a custody visit. When Morgan failed to return the child, he was charged in the Ocean County Superior Court with endangering the welfare of a child and interference with child custody, and a state warrant was issued for his arrest. Once the child's body was discovered, Morgan was charged with homicide in Monmouth County and federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, and state and federal arrest warrants were issued on November 23, 2011.

Morgan has ties to Texas and California.