The manuscript, Hunting Criminals to Hiding Them, My Journey to and with the United States Marshals Service, is the story of my career working with the oldest federal law enforcement agency, the U.S. Marshals Service. I begin with my childhood years in Chicago, Illinois, and discuss my three dreams and goals of playing professional football, serving in the military, and becoming a police officer. I was able to accomplish two of my goals - serving 25 years part-time in the military, while simultaneously working for the Markham Police Department and then the U.S. Marshals Service. My family and several good friends are briefly mentioned, including my fugitive partner, and a longtime military colleague and friend. I talk about various phases of my career climbing the ladder in the U.S. Marshals Service, including serving as a Chief Inspector in the Prisoner Services Division to my historic appointment as the first African American Deputy Marshal to be promoted to the Senior Executive Service as an Assistant Director. My journey discusses significant achievements I made protecting federal judges and federal court facilities. The main focus of the book is my love of hunting and arresting criminal fugitives, and subsequently spending the last nine years of my U.S. Marshals Service career working diligently to hide and safeguard them in the Witness Security Program. I discuss a number of cases I worked on and made arrests for. I also mention major enhancements I implemented for the Witness Security Program including the establishment of International Symposiums on Witness Security, partnering with Interpol and other international organizations. Lastly, I write about my travel around the globe assisting countries to establish or enhance Witness Protection Programs in efforts to maintain and preserve justice. Hunting Criminals to Hiding Them My Journey to and with the United States Marshals Service By Sylvester E. Jones Sr. AuthorHouse Copyright © 2015 Sylvester E. Jones Sr. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5049-2371-2 Contents Dedication, ix, Foreword, xiii, Acknowledgements, xv, Introduction, xxi, Chapter One Growing Up in Chicago, My Favorite Town Joining the Illinois Army National Guard as a Military Policeman, 1, Chapter Two Chasing My Dreams and Goals Joining the Markham Police Department, 11, Chapter Three Transition and a New Beginning with the United States Marshals Service, 35, Chapter Four Working the Hunt My Assignment to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force And the Ghost Case, 57, Chapter Five The Hunt: Working Fugitive Cases in Chicago and Military Deployment for Operations Desert Storm/Shield, 69, Chapter Six Operation Sunrise: Hunting, Finding and Arresting Fugitives In South Florida for the Second Time, 81, Chapter Seven Closing Out My Chicago Marshals Service Career, 89, Chapter Eight United States Attorney's Task Force - United States Virgin Islands, 99, Chapter Nine Puerto Rico-Supervising the Seized Assets Squad, 115, Chapter Ten Leading National Prisoner Programs in the Prisoner Puerto Rico-Supervising the Seized Assets Squad Services Division USMS Headquarters, 135, Chapter Eleven Leading the National Court Security Program In the Judicial Security Division, 149, Chapter Twelve Transfer to the Northern District of Georgia as Chief Deputy, 163, Chapter Thirteen My Historic Selection and Promotion to the Senior Executive Service As Assistant Director for the Judicial Security Division, 173, Chapter Fourteen Reassignment to the Witness Security and Prisoner Operations Division, 193, Chapter Fifteen Leading Witness Security, Hiding Them-Not Finding Them, 203, Chapter Sixteen Creating Global Witness Security Alliances with International Symposiums, 211, Chapter Seventeen Witness Security and Protection My Mission Accomplished, 233, Chapter Eighteen, Last Chapter My Retirement from Federal Service, 243, CHAPTER 1 Growing Up in Chicago, My Favorite Town Joining the Illinois Army National Guard as a Military Policeman I was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1960 to a very loving teenage mother. My mother lived with her parents and siblings on the south side of Chicago near 35th and State Street. My mother has always been a sharp witty person. She found work while continuing with high school as my late loving grandmother and my two aunts looked after me. My mother had two more sons in the next three years. She had three boys and was working at the United States Post Office and soon thereafter, rented an apartment for her family. My grandmother and two aunts continued to look after the three of us little guys while my mother worked. I barely knew my father and remember him visiting a few times when I was three or four years old. When I was four my mother married for the first time, and she and her husband had four children, two boys and two girls. I was the first born of seven kids and had the responsibility of looking after my siblings, as I