September 16,
2019
With the assistance
of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Taskforce Teams, the Drug Enforcement
Administration, and state and local police departments, the prisoner who
escaped from a police vehicle last month has been located and arrested.
Ameer Ali, 38,
(formally Trezith R. Smart) of the 500 block of Young Mill Lane, Newport News,
VA was located in
Philadelphia, PA on Monday morning. The manhunt led authorities from Virginia
to North Carolina to Philadelphia where he was arrested.
Ali is being
charged with obstruction of justice, destruction of property, petit
larceny, failure to appear, conspiracy to distribute cocaine,
and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
On Monday, August
19, Ameer Ali escaped at the intersection of Leigh and Belvedere Streets.
Although handcuffed with his hands behind his back and buckled into the back
passenger-side seat, Ali was able to move his manacled hands to the front of
his body, unbuckle the seatbelt, unlatch the side door and escape.
