Youngstown Division of fugitive task force earns prestigious award

YOUNGSTOWN — Since forming in 2003, the Youngstown Division of the U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force made 6,400 arrests.

That accomplishment, among others, was noted by Peter J. Elliott, U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio, when the Youngstown Division was given the 2008 Susan Graves Task Force Division of the Year Award at the Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse downtown today.

“This is a special award,” Elliott said. “It goes to the top task force division.”

Elliott’s division of the task force includes 40 counties in the state and each year one division in the 40 counties receives the award.

The Youngstown Division includes a number of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

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