MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – The Memphis Safe Task Force warrant strike teams do nothing but serve warrants. That’s their expertise.
To serve a warrant, you have to find a fugitive who may go to any lengths to escape capture. Using modern technology, combined with good, old-fashioned detective work, the strike teams, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, track and arrest with fine-tuned skill.
On a bitterly cold Tuesday in the Bluff City, with a bone-chilling “feels like” temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit, the task force was hot on the trail of a man wanted on a warrant for felony fleeing, evading law enforcement in a manner that put others in danger.
The strike team Action News 5 rode with was made up of agents from the FBI, Homeland Security and Diplomatic Security, who sprang into action when all team members were in place at the Orange Mound apartment where they believed the suspect to be…