Local News in Brief : Man Sought by FBI Caught

A man on the FBI’s list of 10 most wanted fugitives was captured early Wednesday by Los Angeles police officers who stopped him for driving an allegedly stolen car, authorities said.

James Wesley Dyess, 31, was in federal custody on a warrant charging him with fleeing custody to avoid prosecution in two murders committed during a home burglary in Jackson, Miss., FBI spokesman Fred Reagan said.

Dyess, who has used the name James Nobles and was last known to be working as a truck driver, was arrested shortly after midnight at a central Los Angeles truck stop, Reagan said.

“He is classified as armed and extremely dangerous but he offered no resistance at the time of his arrest and was unarmed,” Reagan said.

The officers saw Dyess at the truck stop, thought his behavior suspicious and ran the license number of the car he was driving through the department computer. The car had been reported stolen, and the officers arrested Dyess, Reagan said.