Earlier this month, the Modesto Police asked the Marshals
Service to assist in finding Smith. Through a series of investigative leads,
Smith was discovered in the parking lot of a department store on East 2nd
Street. He was shortly thereafter taken into custody without incident in
Sparks. Smith was then booked into the Washoe County Detention Center to await
court hearings and extradition to California.
Christopher Hoye, U.S. Marshal for the District of Nevada,
commented that violent offenders are given top priority by the joint federal,
state, county, and municipal fugitive task forces. “The Northern Nevada
community can rest assured that when help is requested, one hundred percent of
our effort is directed toward finding and arresting people wanted in these types
of crimes,” Hoye further stated.
The Northern Nevada Fugitive Task Force, led by the U.S.
Marshals Service, is a partnership comprised of law enforcement investigators
from the United States Marshals Service, Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Nevada
Department of Public Safety (Probation & Parole), Sparks Police Department,
and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms (ATF). The task force
combines resources and expertise of local, state, and federal law enforcement
in a coordinated effort to arrest dangerous fugitives and pursue sexual
offenders wherever they are located. Last year the unit was responsible for the
arrest of 250 state, local, and federal fugitives.
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