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In Reply, Please Refer to Release No. 219 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60604

 

 

November 6, 2002

Kansas City Murder Suspect Arrested in Chicago

Thomas J. Kneir, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Terry G. Hillard, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Michael F. Sheahan, Cook County Sheriff announced today the arrest of SAMUEL JONES, Jr., age 58, of 5742 West North Avenue in Chicago. JONES was arrested last night, without incident, by members of the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force, which is comprised of FBI Special Agents, CPD Detectives and Cook County Sheriff's Officers.

JONES has been the subject of a nationwide manhunt by the FBI since December of 2001, at which time he was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Missouri with Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP). This federal charge stems from the November 2001 death of Christina Paddock, a 26-year old Kansas City resident who was found murdered in a motel room she had shared with JONES. Subsequent investigation by the Kansas City Police Department linked JONES to this crime and also determined that he had fled the state.

JONES' case has been profiled three (3) times on the television show America's Most Wanted, with the most recent airing of his case this past weekend (November 2). Following airing of the show, several tips were received from Chicago area residents who recognized JONES as a street vendor who was working in the downtown and near north areas of Chicago. Members of the Chicago VCTF located JONES in the vicinity of Michigan Avenue and Chestnut Street, where he was taken into custody.

JONES was subsequently turned over to the Cook County Sheriff's Department for extradition to Missouri.

The public is reminded that a complaint is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Photographs of JONES and additional information about his case are available from the America's Most Wanted web site, www.americasmostwanted.com.




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