Kamar Cunningham was initially arrested in 2018 for his role in a west-end street gang that smuggled guns over the U.S. border. He is currently awaiting extradition after he was captured in Georgia, pc28police said.
Kamar Cunningham was initially arrested in 2018 for his role in a west-end street gang that smuggled guns over the U.S. border. He is currently awaiting extradition after he was captured in Georgia, pc28police said.
One of Canada’s most wanted fugitives was arrested in the U.S. on Wednesday after nearly four years on the lam.
Kamar Cunningham, 43,is now awaiting extradition after being brought in by the U.S. Marshals Service near Atlanta, Ga., pc28police said on Friday.
The pc28man was initially arrested in 2018 for his role in a west-end street gang that smuggled guns over the U.S. border. He was convicted of several firearms trafficking charges in November 2020 before being sentenced to nine years in prison in May 2021 but did not appear in court for the decision,
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Cunningham was charged in Project Patton, which at the time was pc28police’s biggest gun bust in the city’s history with over 1,000 charges laid against 75 people connected to a criminal organization called the Five Point Generals.
He was released on bail three times and repeatedly violated his bail conditions, a police superintendent said in 2024 when officials announced a $50,000 reward for the fugitive.
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