Deputy U.S. marshals have captured a Kentucky murder suspect in Richmond County.
Odell Altaron Robinson, 40, surrendered to authorities Wednesday morning at an 849 Wiregrass Road home outside Hamlet, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. He’s being held without bond at the Richmond County Jail pending extradition to Kentucky.
Robinson and another man are accused of shooting and killing Gregory Sawyers, who marshals described as a key witness in a federal murder trial. The fatal shooting took place in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 27, 2013.
“This is a prime example of the fine work our Fugitive Task Force does,”Bill Stafford, U.S. marshal for the Middle District of North Carolina, said in a Friday statement. “By partnering with state and local agencies, we were able to capture this fugitive so that he can be returned to Kentucky to answer for the serious crimes he is accused of.”
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Police say Robinson and Orlando Gilmore gunned down Sawyers on a Louisville street corner. Sawyers was serving time on a gun conviction and agreed to testify against Kelly in the murder trial in exchange for a reduced sentence.
A Louisville grand jury handed down murder indictments in September and Gilmore was arrested on Sept. 23, according to multiple Louisville-area media outlets.
Both men face charges of murder, retaliation against a participant in legal process and intimidating a participant in the legal process and being a persistent felony offender.
Robinson was captured after the U.S. Marshals Service’s Western Kentucky Regional Task Force learned that the suspect was in Richmond County. Deputy marshals contacted the marshals’ Joint Fugitive Task Force for the Middle District of North Carolina, where agents located and captured Robinson.
Court records show Robinson is being held without bond in the Richmond County Jail on a fugitive warrant. An extradition hearing is scheduled for Nov. 20.
Founded in 1789, the U.S. Marshals Service is the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency. Deputy marshals apprehend an average of 337 federal fugitives each day, more than all other law enforcement agencies combined.
Officers from the Chapel Hill, Durham, Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem police departments, the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, the N.C. Highway Patrol and the state Department of Public Safety’s community corrections, probation and parole division are assigned to the district task force as special deputy U.S. marshals.
