U.S. marshals are looking for a young fugitive with a long rap sheet, and they are asking the public to help bring him to justice.
Authorities say 22-year-old Blair Thompson has a shown a penchant for breaking the law and then disobeying the courts, his probation officer or the cop on the street. Thompson has two outstanding warrants in Montgomery County for violating his probation for a drug dealing conviction and for failing to show up for court after another drug arrest, deputies said.
“With more recent arrests for assault and armed robbery, we don’t need someone running around that seems to routinely make bad decisions and now possibly making bad decisions while armed with a handgun,” said Matthew Burke, supervisory inspector with the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force.
Thompson, of Silver Spring, has arrests for probation violations, failures to appear in court, failure to obey a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, drug distribution and possession, assault, and armed robbery.
Marshals are asking for information to help them get Thompson back into custody. He is described as being 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds with a tattoo on his neck.
Anyone with information about Thompson can contact the task force at 301-489-1717 or 800-336-0201.
Readers of The Washington Examiner’s weekly “Most Wanted” feature have helped marshals put 21 fugitives behind bars in two years. Last week, an alert reader led authorities to the girlfriend of a man who had been on the run for three years after he was convicted of transporting guns across state lines. The girlfriend told deputies that she also had seen The Examiner article about her boyfriend, Sean Gardner, but he told her that the story was not true. She later persuaded Gardner, 42, to turn himself in.
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, Va. The unit has captured more than 29,000 wanted fugitives since its creation in 2004.
