Dec
12
Manhunt ends when authorities find wanted pair in Tampa hotel
By Ileana Morales, Times Staff Writer In Print: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
TAMPA — A pimp set up for work in a Howard Johnson Hotel amid the strip clubs and pawn shops of Dale Mabry Highway.
In Room 228, the pimp kept his 8-month-old daughter and a bag of marijuana. In Room 129, men lured through the Internet visited a prostitute.
On Monday evening, local and federal law officers raided the rooms and busted the pair. But the arrests were for far more than pimping and prostitution.
They marked the culmination of a yearlong manhunt, including a segment on America’s Most Wanted, for two fugitives wanted for a killing in Georgia.
A tip to the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Atlanta led investigators to Emma Hope Grant, 27, and Derrick Paul Holmes, 29.
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