Source: US Marshals Service
New Haven, CT — The U.S. Marshals, working with the Hartford Police Department, arrested in Hartford today two juveniles wanted on charges of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) received a complaint Feb. 23 of a passenger pointing a gun at other motorists on Interstate 81 in Cumberland County. When PSP located the vehicle and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, the driver of the vehicle led the PSP in a high-speed, 40-mile pursuit, during which the vehicle’s occupants allegedly fired rounds at the troopers.
The vehicle became disabled near Saint Clair in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and troopers arrested two of the four occupants. The two others entered a nearby Walmart and are alleged to have changed into stolen clothing, avoiding immediate apprehension.
PSP then requested assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service, who developed information that the two fugitives had traveled to Connecticut.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Connecticut Violent Fugitive Task Force and Hartford PD located and arrested the two fugitives, both of whom are juveniles, at a residence on Townley Street.
Both were transported to the Hartford Police Department for booking. Pennsylvania will be requesting extradition from Connecticut charging the juveniles with criminal attempt homicide, receiving stolen property, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault, carrying a loaded weapon, possession of a firearm by a minor and aggravated assault.
Since the inception of the U.S. Marshals – Connecticut Violent Fugitive Task Force in 1999, these partnerships have resulted in over 11,046 arrests. The task force’s objective is to seek out and arrest violent fugitives and sexual predators. Membership agencies include Hartford, Bridgeport, Norwalk, and Waterbury Police Departments and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. These arrests have ranged in seriousness from murder, assault, unregistered sex offenders, probation and parole violations and numerous other serious offenses. Nationally the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive programs are carried out with local law enforcement in 94 district offices, 85 local fugitive task forces, eight regional task forces, as well as a growing network of offices in foreign countries.