USMarshal

Investigative Operations Division

The U.S. Marshals Service is the federal government’s primary agency for conducting fugitive investigations and has a critical role in implementing the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction strategy.
While targeting violent and other serious offenders, the agency plays a key role in making communities safer. The U.S. Marshals Service has expanded its fugitive apprehension operations to state and local jurisdictions through highly specialized, multi-agency fugitive task forces covering nearly the entire country. The U.S. Marshals Service builds vital ties within the international law enforcement community to apprehend fugitives abroad as well as to seek foreign fugitives living or residing in the United States.
The agency is the custodian of all federal arrest warrants until execution or dismissal.
In FY 2009, Deputy U.S. Marshals and their task force partners apprehended more than 36,400 federal fugitives and cleared more than 39,300 federal felony warrants.
Working with authorities at the federal, state and local levels, U.S. Marshals-led fugitive task forces arrested an additional 90,806 state and local fugitives, clearing 116,944 state and local felony warrants.
The force multiplier strategy of the Marshals Service’s task force network is unmatched and its impact on violent crime resonates across the country, as more than 118,200 violent fugitives were arrested by the U.S. Marshals and its law enforcement partners during FY 2009.