Local, state and federal law enforcement officers announced Thursday they have arrested more than 10,000 fugitives across the nation in what the U.S. Marshals Service said was the single largest sweep of its kind.
The dragnet saw 3,000 officers from 960 police agencies fan out in the last week to track down felons wanted on a wide variety of charges. Nationally, more than 150 of those arrested were sought on murder charges, another 550 on rape allegations and more than 600 for armed robberies.
Those arrested in the Chicago area included a man who escaped from a federal detention center in New Jersey eight years ago and another wanted in connection with a pair of murders in a south suburb.
The dragnet also pulled in 100 unregistered sex offenders and 150 gang members, with reports on captures still trickling in earlier this week, officials said.
Code-named Operation FALCON, for Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally, the sweep was aimed at concentrating police resources and sharing information across jurisdictional lines in a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day push to round up fugitives, said Marshals Service Director Benigno Reyna. He announced the results at a Washington news briefing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...
I hate having these paranoid flashes.
If you had a list of the 10,000 most politically dangerous individuals in the country, and you wanted to grab them all at once, wouldn't it be good to have a practice run?
Just to sort of get the framework of the system in order?
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