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U.S. Marshal in Chicago leaves office without explanation Chuck Goudie and the ABC7 I-Team were told by law enforcement sources two months ago that Gilmore's effectiveness as U.S. marshal was being questioned. Now he is out. An ABC7 I-Team Investigation By Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Ross Weidner Tuesday, May 22, 2018 12:14PM CHICAGO (WLS) -- A little more than halfway into his term of office, the United States Marshal in Chicago Edward L. Gilmore has resigned suddenly and without explanation. President Barack Obama nominated Gilmore in 2015 to fill the top federal law enforcement spot. He was...

United Airlines just can’t seem to fly under the radar. A Utah man and his fiancée say a U.S. Marshal booted them Saturday from a Houston flight en route to their Costa Rica wedding after they changed seats without permission — the latest in a string of negative headlines for the bedeviled company.

BISMARCK, ND (WDAZ-TV) - A man is charged with peeping in a Target dressing room when a minor was trying on a bathing suit. WDAZ has learned he is a Deputy U.S. Marshal. Michael Rivera, 29, works out of the U.S. Marshal's Office in Bismarck. He is charged with promoting sexual performance by a minor.

Federal officials said Tuesday they are investigating the actions of a U.S. Marshals Service employee who was caught on video grabbing a woman’s cell phone in South Gate, smashing it to the ground and kicking it away. The video, which was filmed by another woman across the street from the police activity, was posted on YouTube. It shows a woman using her cell phone to record a law enforcement operation, and a Marshals Service employee approaches her, grabs the phone and slams it on the ground. “On (Sunday), a YouTube video entitled ‘South Gate Police Attack Cop Watcher: Destroys Cellphone’...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) has launched an investigation into alleged quid pro quo hiring and misuse of federal asset forfeiture funds at the US Marshals Service. In a letter sent to the U.S. Marshals Service Thursday, Grassley requested records in response to whistleblower allegations that senior officials in the service’s Asset Forfeiture Division (AFD) engaged in improper hiring practices.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Josie Wells, who was killed during a gunfire exchange with a fugitive Tuesday (March 10) in Baton Rouge, died of a gunshot wound to his neck, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office. He was 27. Coroner William "Beau" Clark released a preliminary report of the autopsy Wednesday (March 11) afternoon. The report labels the manner of death "homicide." The cause of death is listed as "exsanguination due to gunshot wound of neck."

One U.S. lawmaker’s call for American schools to mirror the Islamic madrassa system has brought him under media scrutiny, yet the expansion of his campaign war-chest continues unabated – a development helped by cash from individuals that include a high-ranking law-enforcement appointee of Barack Obama as well as powerful financial and industrial groups. According to Federal Election Commission quarterly filings submitted this week, U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., appears well-positioned, at least financially, to fend off Republican challenger Carlos May in November... Kerry J. Forestal, whom Obama in 2010 had appointed U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Indiana, incrementally...

After a standoff that lasted more than three hours, the Tyler County Sheriff's Office confirmed a murder suspect who was wanted in Michigan is now dead as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Thomas Jack Fritz, age 38, of Sylvania, Ohio, eluded capture over the weekend after a brutal triple homicide that prompted a nationwide manhunt. According to authorities, the shootings occurred around 11:40 p.m. on July 13 at the Blissfield, Mich. home Fritz shared with his ex-girlfriend, Amy Lynn Merrill, age 33. Merrill and her sister Lisa Michelle Gritzmaker, age 24, who was eight months...

<p>ALPINE, Calif. -- An intoxicated U.S. Marshal was escorted from his Alpine apartment complex after neighbors complained he was banging on doors while carrying his service weapon, authorities said Tuesday.</p> <p>The disturbance in the 1500 block of Tavern Road was reported around 5:10 p.m. Monday, according to San Diego County sheriff's Lt. J.T. Faulkner.</p>

Officials confirm the body of a U.S. Marshal's deputy has been found in a Mexican canal, KVIA-ABC reported. U.S. Deputy Marshal Gerald Payan said the victim is Vincent Paul Bustamente, a U.S. Marshal's deputy assigned to the El Paso office. Payan said the office is working with the FBI and local Mexican authorities to investigate. Chihuahua state police say Bustamente's decomposing body with a circular wound to the back of the head was found at approximately 9 a.m. in a Juarez canal. Jeff Carter, spokesman for the U.S. Marshal's office, told KVIA that Bustamente was on administrative leave prior to...

I heard on Hugh's show they found a marshalls body, de-capped in Mexico.

The body of a U.S. marshal has been discovered in Juarez, Mexico, according to the U.S. Marshals Service -- the latest discovery in a wave of violence that has gripped towns along the U.S.-Mexican border in recent months. The body of Deputy Marshal Vincent Bustamante -- who was the subject of an arrest warrant accusing him of criminal theft of government property -- was found in Juarez on Wednesday, said Marshals Service spokesman Jeff Carter. Chihuahua state police said the body had multiple wounds to the head -- apparently consistent with an execution-style shooting, according to Edgar Roman, a reporter...

Family members watching from both sides of a Rockville courtroom remained still and silent yesterday as a Montgomery County judge handed a 15-year sentence to a former U.S. marshal convicted in the shooting death of a Navy seaman. Arthur L. Lloyd, 54, who sat beside his lawyers in a green prison jumpsuit, showed little emotion as Circuit Judge Ann S. Harrington sentenced him to 25 years, then suspended 10. "I have to process it so I can deal with it," Lloyd's sister Beryl Stanley said of the decision as she stood outside the courtroom looking dazed. During their testimony, members...

A Montgomery County jury yesterday found a former U.S. marshal guilty of voluntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and using a firearm in commission of a crime in the fatal shooting of a Navy seaman during a traffic confrontation last year. The former marshal, Arthur Lloyd, will serve at least five years in prison as part of the mandatory sentencing for the firearms charge and could serve as many as 35 years on all of the charges. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 26.

As jurors went through a second day of deliberations yesterday with no verdict in the murder trial of a former U.S. marshal, the victim's mother took issue with the way her son was portrayed in court. Ryan T. Stowers, a Navy seaman from Redding, Calif., was killed Oct. 28 after a minor traffic collision with off-duty Deputy Marshal Arthur Lloyd escalated into a fistfight and then gunfire in a shopping center parking lot on Rockville Pike. Prosecutors said Mr. Lloyd shot Seaman Stowers in the back as Seaman Stowers tried to drive away. Mr. Lloyd contended that Seaman Stowers was...

Two police officers testified yesterday that 20-year-old Navy Seaman Ryan T. Stowers was belligerent toward authorities several times before he was killed by a deputy U.S. Marshal in Rockville last fall. A detective from California told a Montgomery County jury that Seaman Stowers, of Redding, Calif., challenged him to a fight and shouted obscenities at him in June 2003. An officer from Chestertown, Md., said he had a run-in with the sailor about a month before the sailor was killed.

Former U.S. Deputy Marshal Arthur Lloyd testified yesterday that he fatally shot a 20-year-old Navy seaman because the sailor punched and wrestled him, resisted arrest and tried to run him down with his Camaro in Rockville last fall. "I did not want to kill him," Mr. Lloyd testified. "When I saw the car coming toward me, I was just protecting myself." Mr. Lloyd, 54, is charged with killing Seaman Ryan T. Stowers after the two men fought outside Mid-Pike Plaza on the night of Oct. 28. If convicted, Mr. Lloyd could be sentenced to life plus 25 years in prison....

A 20-year-old Navy seaman was legally intoxicated the night that a deputy U.S. marshal fatally shot him in a busy Rockville mall last fall, a Maryland medical examiner testified yesterday. An autopsy showed that the blood alcohol content in Seaman Ryan T. Stowers' system was 0.21 percent to 0.22 percent, Dr. Theodore M. King Jr. testified. The legal blood alcohol limit is 0.08 percent. ?I would consider that Mr. Stowers was intoxicated at the time of his death,? Dr. King told the jury. ?The manner of death is homicide.?