U.S. marshals are looking for a heroin dealer who has eluded authorities for years.
Gregory Bennett, 56, has a rap sheet that dates back to 1995, and involves arrests for assault with a deadly weapon, purse snatching and distribution of heroin.
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A warrant for his arrest was issued in D.C. in June 2006, for failing to appear on a heroin charge.
Marshals are asking the public for information that will lead to his arrest.
“Bennett is rather evasive. Let’s put an end to his running,” said Deputy Steven Burns of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force.
Bennett is listed as 5-foot-6 and 140 pounds. He has a distinctive mole under his right eye.
He is known to frequent the area around Florida Avenue and North Capitol Street in Northwest Washington. It is possible that he’s living in a homeless shelter, deputies said.
Anyone with information about Bennett can call Burns or the U.S. Marshals Service at 301-489-1717 or 800-336-0102.
Tips from readers of The Washington Examiner recently led to the capture of two more fugitives, including a convicted kidnapper who had eluded authorities.
Early Monday morning, Marshals deputies arrested Meinrad Ekani Pierre in the mountains of western Maryland, after receiving a call in the middle of the night that Pierre was staying at the Inn at Deep Creek, a lakeside resort in Garrett County.
Pierre, the convicted kidnapper, had been on the run for about three years.
Late last month, a reader’s tip led to the capture of Wayne “Elliott” Hilliard, who was wanted in an armed robbery of a gas station in Waldorf.
Since 2008, federal authorities have credited readers ofThe Examiner with the capture of 45 fugitives, including murderers, kidnappers, child sex offenders, rapists and scam artists.
At least eight captured fugitives were convicted killers or wanted on a homicide charge.
