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• Sixteen (16) wanted for Breaking and entering / Burglary/Home Invasion

• Fifty-one (51) wanted for Felony assault, including Firearms related assaults.

The R.I. Violent Fugitive Task Force brought additional criminal charges on

persons for Firearms, narcotics, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.
Members seized multiple firearms and drugs during these investigations.

Members arrested multiple subjects for escape and home confinement. R.I.
VFTF also assisted numerous Federal Agencies as well as RISP HIDTA, Major

Crimes Units in support of High-Risk Law Enforcement /Fugitive Recovery
Operations.

Out of State Fugitive tracking Collateral Investigations

• Jorge Ortiz RIAG/BCI Multiple firearms possession/Domestic assault warrants
extradition petitioned and submitted for both North Carolina and Texas and

later updated to Nationwide approved following an extensive fugitive recovery
investigation several attempts / interviews conducted in Rhode Island starting
back in May of 2019. Information developed and search warrant executed

revealed likely out of state residency. Attempts made in both North Carolina
and Texas in 2020 were negative following a collateral Fugitive tracking case

through U.S. Deputy Marshal Moore was forwarded. Updated attempts revealed
the information to be accurate as he had fled likely to Minnesota. Fugitive

recovery and follow up is currently pending.
• 20RIX1-632-AR Trebor Mims a fugitive case tracking investigation was initiated

following the issue of an Affidavit and Arrest warrant for first degree armed
robbery with a handgun. Information was received that he had likely fled to the
Dorchester suburb of Boston Massachusetts. Mims has an extensive gang and

weapons history there. Surveillance was initiated at last known address of
record in Rhode Island which were negative. Extradition was petitioned for and

granted for Massachusetts through the RIAG Office and entered in NCIC. A
fugitive tracking collateral package was prepared and turned over to U.S.
Deputy Marshal C.J. Wyant for forwarded it to Massachusetts Marshals Office.

In follow up information resulting from surveillance and interviews in
Massachusetts, that Mims had returned to RI. A new series of interviews/and

surveillance was conducted that confirmed those facts. A fugitive

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Cranston Police Department Year in Review 2020