The multi-agency law enforcement operation that shut down a stretch of U.S. Highway 31 in Hoover on Monday was tied to the search for a man accused of first-degree rape in Tuscaloosa County, authorities said.
The Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit confirmed the suspect as Thomas Raburn Farris of Leeds, who was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Apprehension Task Force.
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