Anthony D. Choice Arrested

Anthony D. Choice was wanted for murder during home invasion robbery.

May 13, 2010

OHIO FUGITIVE NEWS -- Nine days after our initial appeal to the general public's assistance in capturing murder fugitive Anthony D. Choice. The Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) has safely and successfully apprehended Choice removing yet another potential threat to the public off the streets.

Furthermore, the U.S. Marshals led SOFAST, consisting of various local and state agencies, including the Dayton Police Department and Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, received information that fugitive Anthony Choice was living the North Lake Hills Apartments in Dayton, Ohio. Additional investigation concluded that not only was Anthony Choice living in an apartment in the complex, but also another wanted fugitive, Chucki Fowley, AKA Chucki Montgomery, who was wanted for a probation violation for an earlier weapons offense.

SOFAST officers proceeded to systematically surround the apartment and arrest Fowley inside the apartment. Anthony Choice was located in a back bedroom. Choice first denied his identity by providing false information and a false identification card. However, Choice eventually admitted to authorities that he was in fact Anthony Choice who was most wanted for murder. Choice was then transported to the Dayton Police Department where he was released to the custody of the Dayton homicide detectives.

Anthony Choice will now be prosecuted in an Ohio court of law to determine his innocence or guilt in his accused crimes outlined below.

A former Dayton, Ohio felony murder fugitive, Anthony D. Choice was being sought by the U.S. Marshals Service, Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team after multiple criminal charges were filed against Choice in August 2009. Additionally, the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office approved a total of ten criminal charges, including three counts of murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of felonious assault and one count of having weapons under disability.

According to police investigations, at 1:21 a.m., on June 24, 2009, Anthony D. Choice and his brother William L. Blair allegedly forced their way into a home located at 1211 Alcott Drive, in Dayton, Ohio. Once inside, the two brothers demanded money before they shot 32-year-old Wallace Hailey Jr., several times in the abdomen. Witnesses drove the wounded man, to Good Samaritan Hospital. Hailey was then transferred to Miami Valley Hospital, where he succumbed to the gunshot wounds.

Finally, this fugitive is now in custody thanks to a community effort on part of law enforcement and individual citizens making a difference.