U.S. Marshals Arrest Man Wanted for Escaping Federal Prison

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A multi-state fugitive investigation ended on Tuesday with the arrest of Travis Shaquann Fair, 36. Fair was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service, in the District of South Carolina, for escaping the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. 

The U.S. Marshals Service, in the Western District of North Carolina, Asheville Division, working with the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force (CRFTF), the Asheville Police Department, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) arrested Fair in the early morning of November 10, in Asheville, North Carolina. Fair was serving an 80-month term of imprisonment for possession of a firearm by felon. Fair was convicted and sentenced on this charge in the Western District of North Carolina. 

Fair escaped the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons at Federal Correctional Institution Edgefield, South Carolina, on November 8, and has been evading capture ever since. 

The U.S. Marshals Service District of South Carolina requested the assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service Western District of North Carolina, Asheville Division, in locating and arresting Fair. During the fugitive investigation, U.S. Marshals developed information that Fair was hiding in a hotel off Tunnel Road in Asheville, North Carolina. 

U.S. Marshals located Fair at the hotel, where he was arrested and taken back into custody without incident. Fair is currently in custody at a local detention center in Western North Carolina.

U.S. Marshals maintain crucial interagency partnerships with federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies and U.S. Marshals lead fugitive task forces to arrest tens of thousands of fugitives each year, hundreds every day.