US Marshalls don't care

[Coriolanus]

(US Marshalls apprehended Bret Edmunds, the ‘drifter’ in the Smart abduction in Salt Lake City.)

US Marshall Geoff Shank was on ‘Larry King Live’…and from CNN’s transcripts:

KING: We now welcome to LARRY KING LIVE in Washington, Geoff Shank, senior inspector for the United States Marshals. The Marshals were put on this case 26 hours before nabbing Bret Michael Edmunds. Congratulations, Jeff. And by the way, do Marshals normally get called upon to do this kind of work, looking for somebody that’s wanted?

GEOFF SHANK, U.S. MARSHALS: Mr. King, we, in fact, arrest over 60 percent of all federal fugitives. And we have such a strong working relationship with federal agencies and state and local agencies across the country, that, yes, we get called every day to assist in locating individuals that are wanted for questioning or wanted for various felonies across the country and internationally.

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KING: So you do not do any of the questioning?

SHANK: We will not question Mr. Edmunds no. Our deputies, once they found him, they secured him. Any spontaneous utterances he may have made, in one ear, out the other, we have no questions posed to him, no. We turned him over to the Salt Lake City investigators.

That exchange reminded me of The Fugitive with Harrison Ford as Dr. Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as the US Marshall.

Kimble: I didn’t kill my wife!
(Marshall): I don’t care!
mundane, pointless…felt I must share…

[Walloon]

Marshals – one “l”

[Reeder]

Well, that’s their job, among others. They don’t investigate, don’t interrogate, they just arrest. Then turn the person over to the appropriate authority.

n addition, the men and women of the Marshals Service pursue and arrest 55 percent of all federal fugitives, more than all other federal agencies combined.

http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/

[Skerri]

Speaking as a sister-in-law of a US Marshal, they are there to get the job done, and that’s it. If the Marshal Service is called in, it’s their job to get in there, find someone, and turn him over. I’m suprised Shank agreed to a television interview. I mean, it may be interesting to hear about how they caught the guy, but it’s not like they can give any information out, anyways.