English: ST. LOUIS - Operation Triple Beam (OTB) netted 162 arrests, clearing 186 arrest warrants. The United States Marshals Service, in partnership with the United States Attorney’s Office, St. Louis County Police Department, North County Police Cooperative, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, conducted the four month Operation from June to September. The operation was a gang and violent crime reduction tool using targeted intelligence gathering, and fugitive investigation and apprehension.

OTB St. Louis included the arrest of 69 gang members, 16 murder-related arrests, as well as the seizure of 40 firearms, 4.6 kilograms of narcotics, over $24,000 in United States Currency, and 3 seized vehicles. OTB provides communities with immediate relief from violent, gang-related crime; and targets fugitives who commit violent crime and those who provide them safe harbor. Since DOJ reinvigorated Project Safe Neighborhoods in 2017, US Marshals have launched 33 OTB collaborations of local, state, federal and tribal law enforcement agencies in some of the nation’s most violence-plagued communities, resulting in more than 6,000 arrests; 1,200 firearms confiscations; and the seizure of $1.8 million US currency.

Photo By: Shane McCoy / US Marshals