Bossier City Police Chief Mike Halphen today announced a dangerous fugitive who has been on the run from federal authorities for the last two years has been captured by Bossier City police.

34-year old Marcus Christopher Bentley was wanted on a federal warrant out of Wichita, Kansas on a charge of racketeering. Bentley was among 28 Crips gang members indicted in 2007 under the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, charging them with forming a criminal enterprise to engage in illegal activities including murder, drug trafficking and prostitution.

Chief Halphen says members of the BCPD's Street Crimes Interdiction Unit, Narcotics Unit and K-9 Unit arrested Bentley at approximately 11:30 p.m. at the Red Carpet Inn in the 1900 block of Airline Drive. "Officers received information from the Wichita, Kansas Police Department that Bentley was possibly at that location and began conducting surveillance of the area," said Chief Halphen. "Officers then received further information that confirmed the suspect was in fact there and immediately took him into custody without incident from inside one of the rooms." Bentley had been staying at the hotel for the past two months.

Bentley was booked into the Bossier City Jail as a fugitive and was later transferred to the Bossier Parish Maximum Facility where he's awaiting extradition back to Kansas. Bentley was the last of the 28 indicted gang members to be taken into custody.

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Marcus C. Bentley