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Federal agents on Monday captured one of two inmates who escaped from an Arizona prison in Wyoming, and were still searching for the other fugitive and a suspected accomplice. Tracy Province was arrested with a handgun in northwest Wyoming, about 60 miles outside of Yellowstone National Park, said David Gonzales, the U.S. Marshal for Arizona. The other inmate, John McCluskey, as well as suspected accomplice Casslyn Welch, were still on the lam.

Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers walk briskly between two buildings in a sprawling apartment complex on Tucson's south side. As they approach a parking lot, one says, "There's the car." The trio - wearing black bulletproof vests with "ICE" on the back - sprint toward a red car with its brake lights on. The officers surround the vehicle with their weapons drawn and begin shouting. The man inside, wearing shorts and a Lakers jersey, exits slowly and puts his hands behind his head. It's near dusk on an early summer day in Tucson, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Arizona...

Police Scour Canada for Millionaire Murder Suspect ASSOCIATED PRESS August 22, 2009 BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) -- Canadian authorities on Saturday intensified the manhunt for the millionaire reality TV star accused of murdering a former swimsuit model and stuffing her naked, mutilated body in a suitcase. ''We're leaving no stone unturned, but we have to play our cards close to our chest right now,'' said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Duncan Pound. The search for Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a 32-year-old real estate developer and investor from Calgary, is centered around Vancouver and British Columbia, said Peter Van Loan, Canada's public...

BÖBLINGEN, Germany — Police have located the rental vehicle used by a Special Forces soldier to flee custody after he was convicted in a court-martial of kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault of a German woman. The soldier remains at large. The black Audi Q5 was parked on Waldburgstrasse, which runs parallel to the northern perimeter of Panzer Kaserne’s family housing. A manhunt for Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart, 36, began Thursday morning after he failed to show for the sentencing phase of his trial. Late on Wednesday, a court-martial panel in Vilseck found him guilty of several charges in...

Wanted By The FBI For Violent Crimes:FBI Fugitives

McALLEN — A man from Kosovo wanted in a New York City slaying awaits extradition from South Texas. FALFURRIAS — U.S. Border Patrol agents caught a man born in Kosovo wanted in New York City for murder. Agents encountered Arber Mustafaj along Singer Road, west of U.S. Highway 281 on Wednesday near the Falfurrias checkpoint, local Border Patrol spokesman John Lopez said. Mustafaj, 35, claimed he was a permanent U.S. resident to agents, but could not provide documents that proved his immigration status, agents said. Agents escorted Mustafaj to the Falfurrias checkpoint, where a search of federal databases revealed he...

A member of the FBI’s Top Ten list of Most Wanted Fugitives, wanted for a brutal attack on two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies during a routine traffic stop, was arrested in Mexico on Friday, July 17th, announced Salvador Hernandez, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles and Leroy Baca, Sheriff for Los Angeles County. Preciado was arrested on the evening of Friday, July 17th, in the town of Corral Piedras, a rural area near Yagos, Nayarit, Mexico. Preciado was reportedly using the alias, “Regalo Castaneda-Castaneda” while living in Mexico. Preciado was located and apprehended by officers...

U.S. Marshals partnered with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to carry out an operation for one month. The operation was carried out during June and nationwide Marshals were able to arrest 35-thousand fugitives and clear more than 47-thousand warrants. " We serve and clear as many warrants as we can nationwide on every state in any level." That is the mission within “Operation Falcon.” Here in Laredo U.S. Marshals teamed with local, state and federal agencies to carry out the operation. Arresting 307 fugitives and clearing more than four hundred warrants in just one month alone! Helping other...

Operation Falcon, a multiagency effort led by the U.S. Marshals Service, nabbed 258 fugitives in Minnesota during the week of June 22, officials announced Thursday. Fugitives included 18 sex offenders and at least nine known gang members, and all of the fugitives were considered violent, officials said. The number of arrests this year during the one-week sweep from Duluth to Rochester doubled the number of arrests last year, said Michael McGinn, U.S. marshal for the state of Minnesota.

A pair of prisoners, who were handcuffed together, attempt to escape from court in Hastings, New Zealand. But, a lamp post gets in their way, and they slam into each other before being taken back into custody.

The leader of Germany's Jewish community says the race to catch surviving Nazi war criminals before they die has been "lost".   Last Updated: 1:12PM GMT 02 Dec 2008 Charlotte Knobloch, president of the German Central Council of Jews, was speaking at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the central office for investigating Nazi war crimes. She said the agency's greatest achievements included compiling evidence between 1963 and 1965 to prosecute the key surviving commanders and guards from the Auschwitz death camp where 1.1 million people were killed. Frau Knobloch praised the agency but said the German justice system...

While they were fugitives from justice, Sen. Barack Obama's friend, associate, and political mentor William Ayers and three of his radical Weather Underground co-conspirators, including his wife Bernardine Dohrn, dedicated their 1974 book Prairie Fire to a rogue's gallery that included Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity brought this fact to national attention on their respective radio and television programs on October 30. As Ayers and company wrote in the book: We are a guerilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for...

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - One of Africa's most wanted al Qaeda operatives, sought for his role in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, has narrowly escaped capture in Kenya, police said on Sunday. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, high on Washington's list of terrorist suspects, left a home in the Indian Ocean resort of Malindi late on Saturday just minutes before officers crashed through the door, police said. "We sealed off the whole area and had sea and land patrols but unfortunately, Fazul got leakage of the intended raid and escaped," said one senior detective who asked not to...

MEXICALI, Mexico (AP) - The chief of Baja California's international police unit says his job is to convince American criminals they won't find refuge south of the border - despite what the movies say. Since 2001, Alfredo Arenas Moreno's agents have captured more than 195 U.S. fugitives, most recently a Nebraska teacher accused of having sex with a student. Arenas used a GPS tracker to find 25-year-old Kelsey Peterson in her car earlier this year in the parking lot of a shopping mall in the border city of Mexicali. The teacher was turned over to U.S. authorities to face federal...

An illegal immigrant who avoided deportation by living in a Chicago church said Saturday she is not afraid of being taken into custody on her first trip outside the sanctuary in a year. Elvira Arellano spoke at a downtown Los Angeles church as her 8-year-old son Saul, a U.S. citizen, participated in a small rally a few miles away at City Hall. "From the time I took sanctuary, the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want," she said in Spanish. "I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or...

Richard Lee McNair is a crafty escape artist and a smooth-talking con-man who's been spotted again and again since his April 2006 prsion escape, but he always slips away. On April 5, 2006, Richard Lee McNair escaped a federal penitentiary in Pollock, La. Later that same day, running along the railroad tracks, he managed to convince a Ball, La. police officer that although he had no ID and seemed to match the physical description of an escaped convict he was really Robert Jones, out for a 12 mile jog -- from a hotel to a roofing job. Even when he...

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. -- Immigration authorities arrested 175 "immigration violaters" in Orange County this week as part of a weeklong crackdown targeting undocumented immigrants and immigration fugitives. Among those arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were 27 "criminal aliens" believed to be in the United States illegaly and with prior criminal records. One of those 27 was Jamie Peña-Martinez, 30, a previously deported from Mexico with a prior conviction for child molestation. He was arrested at a residence in Santa Ana. The remaining 26 criminal aliens were all under deportation orders by immigration judges, according to an...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Weak law enforcement and compliant Church authorities make Mexico a haven for U.S. pedophile priests fleeing justice, a victims' group said on Wednesday. The Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, which helped bring a lawsuit this week against two of North America's top cardinals, said it knows of 46 mostly U.S. priests hiding out south of the border. "Mexico has really become a secure place because here judicial authorities don't track them down and nothing happens," said group spokesman Eric Barragan......."

IF YOU ARE STILL CONFUSED ABOUT THE IMMIGRATION MESS WAIT UNTIL YOU READ THE FOLLOWING. THIS IS WHAT 'HISPANIC' LEADERS HAVE SAID : Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over". Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions....

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican man who is among the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives for allegedly murdering his 4-year-old stepson in 2003 has been arrested in Mexico, the U.S. Embassy said on Monday. Genero Espinosa Dorantes, 35, was arrested on Saturday in the border city of Tijuana on charges of torturing and killing his stepson Luis Cisneros in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said. Earlier in February Espinosa Dorantes' former girlfriend, the victim's mother, was arrested in Mexico's central city of Guanajuato for alleged complicity in the murder. U.S. officials plan to seek extradition of the suspects.