U.S. marshals are looking for a nightclub promoter who violated parole on charges that he beat and stabbed a customer and left him for dead.
Forty-year-old Jermi Jones was paroled in 2004 after serving six months of a five-year sentence, but he disappeared last year and an arrest warrant was issued for him in October. Marshals said Jones has a rap sheet for violent crimes that extends from the D.C. area to Michigan.
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“Jones is a dangerous, violent convicted felon. He needs to be found immediately and we need the community’s help,” said Chief Inspector Rob Fernandez, head of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force.
Jones was on parole for an assault with intent to kill conviction. Jones beat a man that he met at Andalu’s nightclub in downtown D.C. after loaning the victim his car. Police said Jones showed up at the man’s home in Northeast Washington and punched him in the face. Jones then got a kitchen knife and stabbed the man in his leg, tied his hands with an electrical cord and left him unconscious. At the hospital, police found ligature markings completely around the victim’s neck.
The man told police that Jones was a promoter at Andalu’s. Police went to the nightclub and found Jones hiding in the ladies’ restroom, with his feet on top of the toilet, peering through the crack between the stall door, charging documents said.
Jones has arrests in Maryland, Virginia, Michigan and D.C. on domestic assault, grand theft and felony drug charges.
Jones is described as a 6-feet-2 and 240 pounds with a scar over his right eye and a tattoo on his right arm. His last known residence was on Harry Truman Drive in Largo, but marshals said he could be anywhere in the Washington area.
Anyone with information regarding Jones’ whereabouts is urged to call the U.S. Marshals Service at 301-489-1717 or 800-336-0102.
The Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, run by the U.S. Marshals Service, is made up of 30 federal, state and local agencies from Baltimore to Norfolk. The unit has captured more than 29,000 wanted fugitives since its creation in 2004.
