U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE CLOSES COLD CASE FROM 1972

FROM:  U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE 

The United States Marshals Service Cold Case Unit Closes Case from 1972
Cleveland, OH – United States Marshal Pete Elliott and Adult Parole Director Todd Ishee announce the closure of one of Ohio’s oldest warrants.

In 1967, Perry Greathouse, was charged with 1st degree Murder and convicted of manslaughter in the beating and strangulation death of his 3 year old step-daughter in Hartville, OH. Greathouse was sentenced to 1-20 years on January 25, 1967 and was released on parole on January 11, 1972. After his release, Greathouse quickly fled the state and lived a life on the run under a new alias.

The investigation identified that Greathouse’s life on the run began when he changed his name to Gerald Kelly. Gerald Kelly’s life included arrests in Atlantic City, NJ in 1974 and 1976 for sex offenses, in 1983 in Norfolk, VA for misdemeanor concealment and repeated arrests from 1986 until 1989 for crimes such as intoxication, theft, battery and arson while being homeless in Baltimore, Maryland.

Investigators found that Perry Greathouse became sick in 1990 and his days ended in a nursing home in 1990 in Baltimore, MD.

U.S. Marshal Peter Elliott explained that “this is another example of thorough police work and great team work!” With the assistance of the United States Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Ohio Adult Parole Authority “we were able to close one of our states oldest warrants.”

U.S. MARSHALS MAKE 2 ARRESTS IN MURDER COLD CASE

FROM:  U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE
U.S. Marshals Arrest Two in Cold Case

Greensboro, NC – On November 25, 2013 at 05:48 AM, Percibal Lesean Pettiford-Bynum, a 26 year old, black male was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force (JFTF), the Person County Sheriff’s Office and the Wilson Police Department. Pettiford-Bynum was arrested without incident at 254 Hunter’s Edge Road in Timberlake, NC.

On the same morning, Donnie Hayes Jr., a 30 year old, black male was also arrested by members of the U.S. Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force (JFTF), the Durham Police Department, and the Wilson Police Department. Hayes was taken into custody at his residence of 53 Lawson Street Apt. E in Durham, NC.
Both individuals were arrested in connection to the January 4, 2011 homicide of Omar Shariff Harris.

Investigators say Harris was shot and killed at his Rasberry Drive home in Wilson. Pettiford-Bynum and Hayes along with two other individuals, James Bernette Jones, 47, and Angelo Lindovis Jones, 53, were charged with first degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and first degree burglary. The Jones’ were arrested on a later date by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Wilson Police Department.

The U.S. Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force for the Middle District of North Carolina is comprised of investigators from the U.S. Marshals Service, Chapel Hill Police Department, Durham Police Department, Greensboro Police Department, High Point Police Department, Winston Salem Police Department, Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Probation and Parole Division and the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.