NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Roundups Net 1,500 Fugitives in 6 States
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
About 1,500 fugitives described as the “worst of the worst” were seized in a 10-week manhunt that was one of the largest roundups in the nation’s history, officials in New York said. Officers from 65 law enforcement agencies sought out violent criminals--many of them escapees--in Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Washington and New York. The roundup was called Operation Sunrise because many of the arrests occurred in the morning when the fugitives were in bed and unarmed, officials said.
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