They hunt and catch the most dangerous criminals in Arkansas.
Ivor Shawn Gordon, aka “Slick,” is wanted for murder. Police say he shot two people at a Little Rock apartment complex on January 3rd, killing one.
Now he’s on the run.
It’s up to the Fugitive Taskforce, a team made-up of U.S. Marshalls and local Law Enforcement, to find him.
Kevin Sanders is the Taskforce supervisor.
“The bad guys aren’t gonna come to you,” Sanders said. “You gotta go get them.”
The Taskforce is spread out across Mabelvale because of a tip from a confidential informant.
They know to look for certain cars that could lead them to Gordon and they also know of a few locations where Gordon could be hiding, but the search for Gordon isn’t going as planned.
Their confidential informant isn’t as helpful as the Taskforce had hoped, so they settle in for what could be a long night.
Around an hour later as the sun sets, the Taskforce unexpectedly catches a break.
The Taskforce alters their plans, then wait for the sun to set.
And under the cover of darkness, the Eastern Arkansas Fugitive Taskforce goes after suspected murderer Ivor Gordon.
The Taskforce ended up finding Gordon hiding in a closet. It made for an exciting arrest but the fact is, life is not always this exciting for the Taskforce.
When you hunt fugitives nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, you don’t see your family as much as you’d like.
“One of our guys last week, he just found out that they’re gonna have a baby. You know, their first one,” Sanders said. “And you know, we were out working during the time that they were supposed to go to their first doctor’s appointment together to find out, you know to hear the baby’s heart beat for the first time.”
On the other side of the law, the suspects the Taskforce hunts have spouses and children too who get caught up in the raids.
A very pregnant Loriano Lombard and her two-year-old son encountered the Taskforce when they showed up to arrest her husband Russel for armed robbery.
“They knocked on the door. I answered the door,” Loriano said. “I said ‘Who is it?’ The man replied to me, ‘Open the door before we take the f****** hinges off the door.’”
“I’m like ‘Well he’s not here sir, he’s at work. I can tell you where he’s at.’” Loriano siad. “He’s like ‘No, you just shut the f*** up, we gotta search the house and everything. You just sit the f*** down.’”
So Loriano and two-year-old Tyrus did as they were told.
Russel claims he’s innocent. The Taskforce arrested eventually arrested him at his job in Maumelle.
“I didn’t want my two-year-old son to see me being carted off like an animal,” Russel said.
Russel has no problem with the way marshals treated him, but he’s angry about the encounter with his family.
“I was furious,” Russel said. “I mean it didn’t make me being behind bars any easier just knowing that that’s how they would react to a pregnant woman and a child.”
Taskforce supervisor Sanders says the Lombard’s story is wrong, completely false. He says the Taskforce does enter homes with guns drawn when hunting a fugitive – they are chasing violent felons after all – but pointing a gun at a two-year-old?
“We would never point a firearm at a child. It’s just not who we are,” Sanders said. “I have children. Every person on my squad has a child.”
No one wants to see these guys with guns show up at their door, especially if they believe they’re innocent. But our neighborhoods are safer because they’re out there every day, putting their lives on the line.
Ivor Shawn Gordon, aka “Slick,” is wanted for murder. Police say he shot two people at a Little Rock apartment complex on January 3rd, killing one.
Now he’s on the run.
It’s up to the Fugitive Taskforce, a team made-up of U.S. Marshalls and local Law Enforcement, to find him.
Kevin Sanders is the Taskforce supervisor.
“The bad guys aren’t gonna come to you,” Sanders said. “You gotta go get them.”
The Taskforce is spread out across Mabelvale because of a tip from a confidential informant.
They know to look for certain cars that could lead them to Gordon and they also know of a few locations where Gordon could be hiding, but the search for Gordon isn’t going as planned.
Their confidential informant isn’t as helpful as the Taskforce had hoped, so they settle in for what could be a long night.
Around an hour later as the sun sets, the Taskforce unexpectedly catches a break.
The Taskforce alters their plans, then wait for the sun to set.
And under the cover of darkness, the Eastern Arkansas Fugitive Taskforce goes after suspected murderer Ivor Gordon.
The Taskforce ended up finding Gordon hiding in a closet. It made for an exciting arrest but the fact is, life is not always this exciting for the Taskforce.
When you hunt fugitives nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, you don’t see your family as much as you’d like.
“One of our guys last week, he just found out that they’re gonna have a baby. You know, their first one,” Sanders said. “And you know, we were out working during the time that they were supposed to go to their first doctor’s appointment together to find out, you know to hear the baby’s heart beat for the first time.”
On the other side of the law, the suspects the Taskforce hunts have spouses and children too who get caught up in the raids.
A very pregnant Loriano Lombard and her two-year-old son encountered the Taskforce when they showed up to arrest her husband Russel for armed robbery.
“They knocked on the door. I answered the door,” Loriano said. “I said ‘Who is it?’ The man replied to me, ‘Open the door before we take the f****** hinges off the door.’”
“I’m like ‘Well he’s not here sir, he’s at work. I can tell you where he’s at.’” Loriano siad. “He’s like ‘No, you just shut the f*** up, we gotta search the house and everything. You just sit the f*** down.’”
So Loriano and two-year-old Tyrus did as they were told.
Russel claims he’s innocent. The Taskforce arrested eventually arrested him at his job in Maumelle.
“I didn’t want my two-year-old son to see me being carted off like an animal,” Russel said.
Russel has no problem with the way marshals treated him, but he’s angry about the encounter with his family.
“I was furious,” Russel said. “I mean it didn’t make me being behind bars any easier just knowing that that’s how they would react to a pregnant woman and a child.”
Taskforce supervisor Sanders says the Lombard’s story is wrong, completely false. He says the Taskforce does enter homes with guns drawn when hunting a fugitive – they are chasing violent felons after all – but pointing a gun at a two-year-old?
“We would never point a firearm at a child. It’s just not who we are,” Sanders said. “I have children. Every person on my squad has a child.”
No one wants to see these guys with guns show up at their door, especially if they believe they’re innocent. But our neighborhoods are safer because they’re out there every day, putting their lives on the line.
