Task Forced Charged with Tracking Down Fugitives

Memphis, Tn - New Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Bailey Phillips is hitting the ground running. “Right now we’ve got two outstanding fugitive warrants that are pretty high on the list,” Marshall explains.

Phillips eyes are on 20 year old Jordan Bell and 24 year old Aramis Parker. The two are fugitives from West Memphis are both wanted for aggravated assault.

Bell is accused of shooting a 17 year old in August, while parker is accused of firing a shotgun and hitting 2 juveniles outside an auto strip club in September of 2008.

Phillips is confident he’s up to the task, “No doubt about it, I will get the information I need to bring these two subjects in.”

Phillips, who spent 12 years with the West Memphis Police, is now the department’s full time Marshal assigned to the U.S. Marshal’s Mid-South task force. The title means for the first time, West Memphis PD has federal resources to cross stateliness and find and arrest violent fugitives.

Few local police departments have fugitive units. Before the fugitive force outstanding felony warrants like the ones for Bell and Parker were stacking up. Now that West Memphis is a task force member, it’s Marshal Phillips’ job to close cases, “The bad guys can’t run from us now like they used to.”