In recent years they have also been involved in the arrest of heavily armed fugitives.

SOG was the Marshals Service's assault and special weapons team, organized to capture the most violent and heavily armed fugitives.

On 18 March 2004, three armed fugitives escaped from Johor, Malaysia after committing armed robbery, and fled by a motorised sampan to Pulau Tekong.

One group in Gaza appealed this week for donations to families whose houses were recently rocketed by Israeli troops searching for armed fugitives.

In return, six armed Palestinian fugitives who had taken refuge in the school agreed to give up their weapons and accept expulsion to Jordan for three years.

I'm battling armed fugitives and crazed murderers, not an entire population.

Other deaths occurred when soldiers opened fire at fleeing suspects or shot armed fugitives.

They haven't been told what's going on, just to expect an undetermined number of heavily armed fugitives trying to escape into Mexico.

Like other law-enforcement officials in Montana, Sheriff Printz said the new strategy of not going after heavily armed fugitives was intended to save lives.

If armed fugitives were holed up in a house or apartment in a city, law-enforcement officials say, the local police would never let them go for months without being arrested.