(CLEVELAND) - The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is surrounding a home on Lorain Avenue near West 165th Street, where they believe fugitive Tommie Griffin III is hiding. Griffin is wanted by the United States Marshals Service and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office for a bond violation with the original offenses being kidnapping and rape.
Griffin is the former Cleveland Police Officer who was awaiting trial on the kidnapping and rape charges, was free on bond, and is now accused of breaking the GPS monitor a judge ordered him to wear.
(Top photo courtesy US Marshals Service, bottom photo courtesy Cleveland Police)