Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Police bust fugitive wanted in Las Vegas
FBI tips to local police lead to arrest in East Goshen
A fugitive learned the hard way that what happens in Vegas, doesn’t always stay in Vegas.
Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department received an alert at 4 p.m. on Wednesday from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) that a fugitive was seen at a local business in the 1300 block of Enterprise Drive
in East Goshen Township. The FBI identified the fugitive as April Lynn Parks, 52, who was wanted in Nevada for felony theft charges. According to her online criminal report, she has an address in Malvern.
Members of the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department said on Thursday that they, along with Willistown Township Police Department officers, arrested Parks without incident and confirmed through NCIC that she was wanted on a felony warrant issued by the Clark County District Court in connection with an indictment on Wednesday.
Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police announced that according to the indictment warrant, Parks was charged in Nevada with one felony count of racketeering, 33 felony counts of theft, 19 felony counts of exploitation of an older person, 18 felony counts of exploitation of and older person/vulnerable person, 9 felony counts of theft, 74 felony
counts of offering false instruments for filing or record and 58 felony counts of perjury. The investigation in Las Vegas concentrated on a business operated by Parks that Las Vegas Metropolitan police said was supposed to provide guardianship to the elderly and disabled persons.
The Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department
charged Parks with being a fugitive from justice. According to her online criminal report, Parks was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Lori Novak Donatelli, who set bail at $500,000. Parks was remanded to Chester County Prison pending extradition to Clark County in Nevada.
In addition to the FBI
and Willistown police, the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department was assisted by East Whiteland police.