U.S. Marshals Capture West Tennessee Murder Fugitive in California

Henderson County, TN – The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in the Western District of Tennessee and the Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force in California joined to capture a fugitive, Blake Allen Troutman, 26, who was wanted for Second Degree Murder in Tennessee. 

On July 30th, 2024, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Blake Troutman out of Henderson County Circuit Court in Tennessee. It is alleged that Troutman sold narcotics laced with fentanyl resulting in the death of a 21-year-old woman. The USMS Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force (TRVFTF) in Jackson adopted the  case the same day. Deputy marshals determined that Troutman had fled Tennessee to California and provided investigative leads to the Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force in Los Angeles.

On October 2nd, Deputy marshals from the task force tracked Troutman to a gas station in Orange City near Anaheim and took him into custody. He will be held at a detention facility pending extradition back to Tennessee.

The U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force is a multi-agency task force within Western Tennessee. The TRVFTF has offices in Memphis and Jackson, and its membership is primarily composed of Deputy U.S. Marshals, Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton County Sheriff’s Deputies, Memphis and Jackson Police Officers, the Tennessee Department of Correction Special Agents and the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Since 2021, the TRVFTF has captured over 2,600 violent offenders and sexual predators.

Source: U.S. Marshals Service, usmarshals.gov