Getting your player ready...
CLEVELAND — A spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service says a nationwide program that allows fugitives to safely surrender at churches has been eliminated.
More than 34,000 people in 20 cities turned themselves in through Fugitive Safe Surrender, which got its start in Cleveland in 2005 when a marshal created the program in response to the killing of a police officer by a fugitive during a traffic stop.
Spokesman Jeff Carter told The Plain Dealer of Cleveland that the program cost $250,000 annually and didn’t fit the service’s mission of catching violent fugitives.
