Female fugitive, 26, apprehended in city

Published 8:24 pm Monday, March 10, 2008

By Staff
Police Chief Tom Atkinson reports that his department made an arrest on a wanted fugitive in Dowagiac.
On March 5, at approximately 12:45 a.m., Dowagiac officers were advised that a female subject was at an apartment at Vineyard Place Apartments in Dowagiac who was profiled on Crime Stoppers as being a wanted felon out of South Bend, Ind.
Dowagiac officers made contact with a resident at an apartment in the complex and later located the suspect inside of the apartment.
The 26-year-old female suspect was taken into custody on a warrant out of St. Joseph County, Ind., for a drug delivery charge which has a $200,000 bond.
The female subject was lodged at Cass County Jail awaiting extradition to Indiana.
Police withheld the suspect's name pending her extradition to Indiana.