FBI offering $50K for the arrest of wanted violent fugitive Demario Lamar Cotton

The FBI’s Jackson Field Office is investigating an assault on a federal law enforcement officer which occurred at approximately 10:45 p.m. on June 26 in Jackson. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Demario Lamar Cotton.

Cotton, 38, who hails from Jackson, Mississippi, was charged in a two-count criminal complaint filed on June 28 in United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi; and a federal arrest warrant was issued by a United States Magistrate Judge.

Cotton is charged with one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal law enforcement officer, who was engaged in the performance of official duties, by use of a deadly weapon and one count of using, carrying, discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, that is assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.

That assault went down late Saturday night in Jackson.  Cotton is considered armed and dangerous.

Anyone with information regarding this incident should contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324) or at tips.fbi.gov.

For more on this wanted fugitive, see the video accompanying this article.

(Source: FBI, Jackson)

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