Federal marshals working with a Nevada violent offender task force grabbed a California parole violator Thursday afternoon in a busy west Las Vegas commercial corridor, taking an armed 23-year-old off the street with no shots fired. Authorities say the arrest pulled a wanted fugitive out of the valley and kicked off the process to send him back to California.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Service Nevada Violent Offender Task Force arrested 23-year-old Dylan Collins at about 4:45 p.m. in the 4500 block of West Charleston Boulevard. Officers said he was carrying a handgun, an extended magazine and unspecified illegal drugs when they moved in. Collins was booked into the Clark County Detention Center and is being held on local charges while Nevada and California officials work through extradition paperwork. The arrest and the items recovered were reported by the Tampa Free Press, and the county detention facility is located at 330 S. Casino Center Blvd., according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Multi-agency task force tracked him to Vegas
Investigators say the arrest capped a multi-agency hunt that started when the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation asked the U.S. Marshals’ Pacific Southwest Fugitive Task Force to find Collins in Nevada. The Nevada Violent Offender Task Force – a partnership that includes U.S. Marshals, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department personnel, ATF agents and other law enforcement partners – followed leads that put him in the West Charleston area. U.S. Marshal Gary Schofield called the bust one that “took both a firearm and a serious threat out of the community,” a statement published by the Tampa Free Press.
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