`` We highlighted one -LSB- case -RSB- here in the Chicago area . It involved an individual who was alleged to have molested a 9-year-old girl . He had violated his parole , and after an investigation he was located , '' he said . `` There 's evidence of further crimes that happened since he did n't register as a sex offender . This is typical of the type of individual who is out there , somewhere on the streets of America , and is often harming children or others . '' One operation involved a Cleveland , Ohio , Police SWAT team and the U.S. Marshals , who were following a lead on Jeremiah Jackson , 29 , who was wanted for murder , accused of shooting a woman in the back during a robbery . On June 9 , the team surrounded a house where an intelligence surveillance team said Jackson might be . Jackson was reported to be armed and dangerous . But Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Koerbel said once Jackson saw the team , it had its man . `` When he saw he really had nowhere to go , he gave himself up ,
WASHINGTON -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- More than 35,000 fugitives across the United States were arrested in June as part of an annual sweep that teams the U.S. Marshals Service with local law enforcement in a summer push to clean up the streets , U.S. Marshals said Thursday . U.S. Marshals director John F. Clark says unregistered sex offenders were a major target . Among the 35,190 fugitives apprehended during Operation FALCON -LRB- Federal and Local Cops Operating Nationally -RRB- were 2,356 fugitive sex offenders , the service said . `` This might be considered the cream of the crop for the most violent felons that are out there . For example , we arrested 433 murder suspects , '' said U.S. Marshals director John F. Clark at a Chicago , Illinois , news conference . In the course of the operation , the marshals also confiscated 582 firearms and 2,400 kilograms of narcotics . `` Often when we find fugitives in hiding , we have other fruits of their crimes : firearms , drugs , some other evidence of some type of criminal activity , '' Clark said . Unregistered sex offenders were a major target , Clark said .