U.S. Marshals in Kanas City Announce Results of Operation Triple Beam

DOJ Press


Kansas City, MO
– United States Marshal Mark S. James announced
today the results of Operation Triple Beam, conducted in Kansas City
during the summer of 2021.

The United States Marshals Service for
the Western District of Missouri conducted a 60-day Operation Triple
Beam from mid-July to September 2021 in support of the U.S. Department
of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative (PSN). PSN follows
four key design elements of successful violent crime reduction
initiatives: community engagement, prevention and intervention, focused
and strategic enforcement, and accountability. The Marshals Service
supports PSN in the greater Kansas City area by engaging in focused and
strategic enforcement priorities; Identifying persons with active felony
warrants issued by local, state and federal prosecutor’s offices and
having a propensity to engage in violence within the community. The
Marshals Service then works with local law enforcement departments to
seek out and arrest those persons, bringing them to justice before the
court in which they’ve already been charged.

During the summer
of 2021, Operation Triple Beam was a USMS organized, collaborative
effort with the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department’s Fugitive
Apprehension & Arraignment Section (FAAS) conducted in close partnership
with the Independence, Missouri Police Department, Jackson County
Sheriff’s Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the United
States Attorney’s Office. The operation paid special attention to
violence related crimes that occurred in the most disproportionately
affected neighborhoods of Kansas City as identified by the local Project
Safe Neighborhoods initiative and resulted in the following:

  • Arrest of 150 state, local, and federal
    fugitives

  • 2 gang members arrested

  • 10 firearms seized

  • 0.145 kilograms (kg) of narcotics seized

  • 96 rounds of ammunition seized

  • $4,498 in U.S. Currency seized

Of those arrested, 3 were for sexual offenses, 1
for burglary, 11 for sexual assault, 14 for assault, 4 for homicide, 27
for narcotics, 10 for robbery, 40 for weapons violations, and the
remaining for a variety of other offenses such as failure to register as
a sex offender, fraud, resisting or interfering with arrest, vehicle
theft, etc. Over 93% of the arrests were for violence related crimes.


This Operation Triple Beam was the 5th in a series of targeted
enforcement operations conducted by the U.S. Marshals that began in the
summer of 2018 in support of Project Safe Neighborhoods and the DOJ’s
Bureau of Justice Assistance- Public Safety Partnership (PSP). To date,
these operations have resulted in the following:

  • 2018- Operation Washout (10 days)- 56 arrests
    for felony warrants, 12 firearms and numerous narcotics seized.

  • 2019- Operation Triple Beam (90 days)- 355
    Arrests and the seizure of 69 firearms (43 handguns, 18 rifles, 8
    shotguns), 4.4kg narcotics, 2,382 rounds of ammunition and $1,228 in
    currency.

  • 2020- Operation Relentless Pursuit (60 days)-
    176 arrests and the seizure of 12 firearms (9 handguns, 1 rifle, 2
    shotguns), 1.034 kg narcotics, 141 rounds of ammunition and $3,581in
    currency.

  • 2020- Operation LeGend (90 days)- 488
    arrests, 76 firearms seized, 5.49kg narcotics and $33,757 in
    currency.

KCPD Chief Rick Smith stated, “Our department
would like to thank the U.S. Marshals and all of the other participating
agencies for their hard work and dedication to this operation. This
collaborative effort had an impact on reducing violent crime in our city
and we are grateful for the successful outcome of Project Safe
Neighborhoods.”

For more information on the Project Safe
Neighborhoods initiative in Kansas City, please visit:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/project-safe-neighborhoods-1
.

The U.S. Marshals Midwest Violent Fugitive Task Force-Kansas City
Division, operates in conjunction with members of the Kansas City,
Independence and St. Joseph Missouri Police Departments, Jackson, Cass,
Clay, Buchanan and Nodaway County Sheriff’s Offices, Missouri State
Highway Patrol and other federal law enforcement partners. The task
force objectives are to seek out and arrest fugitives charged with
violent crimes, drug offenses, sex offenders and other serious felonies.
It also provides direct support to law enforcement agencies in tracking
down and recovering missing children. Nationally the United States
Marshals Service fugitive programs are carried out with local law
enforcement in 94 district offices, 67 local fugitive task forces, 8
regional task forces, as well as a growing network of offices in foreign
countries.

Tips can be submitted anonymously to the Greater
Kansas City Crime Stoppers via the TIPS hotline at 816-474-8477, on the
internet at KCcrimestoppers.com or on the free mobile app available at
P3Tips.com. Tips can also be submitted to the U.S. Marshals service
directly by downloading the USMS Tips app to your Apple or Android
device. It can also be accessed online at

https://www.usmarshals.gov/tips/index.html
. Follow the latest news
and updates about the U.S. Marshals Service on Twitter: @USMarshalsHQ.

Additional information about the U.S. Marshals Service can be found
at http://www.usmarshals.gov.

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