ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828NewsNow) — A South Carolina fugitive who escaped a federal prison in South Carolina was captured in Asheville on Nov. 10, according to the United States Marshals Service.
The U.S. Marshals Service said in a Nov. 10 news release that Travis Shaquaan Fair, 36, was captured in the early morning hours of Nov. 10 at a hotel off Tunnel Road. The Marshals Service in the Western District of North Carolina Asheville Division worked with the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Asheville Police Department and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation in executing the arrest, the release said.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Fair had been on the run since his Nov. 8 escape from the Federal Bureau of Prisons at Federal Correctional Institution Edgefield in South Carolina. Fair is now in custody of the Buncombe County Detention Center.
The Marshals Service said Fair was serving an 80-month term (6 years, 4 months) for possession of a firearm by felon. Fair was convicted and sentenced on this charge in the Western District of North
Carolina.
The U.S. Marshals Service District of South Carolina requested the assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service Western District of North Carolina, Asheville Division, in locating and arresting Fair, the release said. During the fugitive investigation, U.S. Marshals developed information that Fair was hiding in a hotel off Tunnel Road in Asheville.
U.S. Marshals located Fair at the hotel, where he was arrested and taken back into custody without incident, the release said. Fair will remain in the Buncombe County Detention Center, where he will await extradition to South Carolina.