A North Carolina man wanted for rape and assault by the Wilmington, N.C., Police Department was arrested today in Savannah by the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force.
Josue Javier Fernandez-Barrios, 21, was wanted by the Wilmington Police Department on charges of rape and assault for an incident that happened over the weekend of July 27 and 28 in Wilmington.
North Carolina marshals developed information that Fernandez-Barrios might have taken a Greyhound bus from Wilmington to Savannah, possibly arriving late on Thursday could possibly be in the area of the Thunderbird Motel and the Savannah Bus Station.
This information was passed to the Savannah Task Force early this morning, and task force members found a subject matching Fernanadez-Barrios’ description sitting on a wall on the Oglethorpe Avenue side of the bus station.
Additional task force members arrived, and Fernandez-Barrios was arrested without incident and taken to the Chatham County Jail to await extradition proceedings back to North Carolina.