U.S. marshals are looking for a District of Columbia drug dealer who has been on the run for more than two years, and they are asking the public for information that can help bring him to justice.
Police said 23-year-old Derek Eugene Queen had been arrested several times for selling cocaine and marijuana in a Congress Heights neighborhood where he lived. In 2007, D.C. police arrested Queen for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute on the 500 block of Oakwood Street SE, the same area where he had been arrested for drugs in 2005 and 2006.
Queen spent 30 days in the D.C. jail for violating his parole for a 2005 felony narcotics arrest, but he failed to appear in court in October 2008 to face the most recent charges.
Police have not seen him since, and marshals deputies said it’s time for Queen to come in and face the charges.
“Queen is one of the many drug dealers that we need to get off our city streets,” said Deputy U.S. Marshal Kenyatta Kerr. “We are asking for the community’s assistance in locating Derek Queen and are offering a reward for any information directly leading to his capture.”
Queen is described as a 23-year-old black male standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing approximately 200 pounds. His last known address was on Oakwood Street Southeast.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Queen is urged to call the U.S. Marshals Service at 301-489-1717 or 800-336-0102.
Tips from Examiner readers have led directly to the arrests of 27 fugitives — convicted murderers, kidnappers, child sex offenders, rapists and scam artists. In the past month, alert readers helped capture a violent sex offender and a D.C. man wanted in a near-fatal stabbing along the trendy H Street corridor.
The Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, run by the U.S. Marshals Service, is composed of 30 federal, state and local agencies from Baltimore to Norfolk. The unit has captured more than 33,000 wanted fugitives since its creation in 2004.
