The federal task force in Memphis is arresting someone wanted on a murder charge every two and a half days.
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The Dan Bongino ShowOct 19, 2026
The claim matches the post's wording and the task force's own records. A cumulative count of 128 homicide arrests through Sept. 10, 2026 (about 345 days after Oct. 1, 2025) works out to roughly one every 2.7 days, close to the claimed 2.5 days. Later U.S. Marshals releases show further murder-charge arrests, so the rate held as of Oct.
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… We put the full force of the federal government to go and just lock up anyone and anyone we could find some nexus to, and we found them. Check this out: the task force has made more arrests for murders than actual murders that have occurred. The task force is arresting someone wanted on a murder charge every two and a half days. So, during a work week, two guys being arrested on murder charge. Overall crime is at a 25-year low, down 34% from last year. …
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Supports. The Des Moines Register/Commercial Appeal report says that as of Sept. 10, 2026 the task force had made 12,604 arrests, 128 of them for homicides, over an operation that began Oct. 1, 2025. That implies about one homicide arrest every 2.7 days.[5]
Supports. U.S. Marshals releases document recurring murder-charge arrests in the weeks before the post, including a single day with four murder-charge arrests on Oct. 22, 2026 and three over a weekend, consistent with a rate of roughly one every few days.[1][2][3]
Context. The 2.5-day figure is an approximation derived from cumulative totals; no source states this exact rate, and homicide-arrest counts are not identical to counts of people 'wanted on a murder charge'.[5]
Context. The task force is a multi-agency effort including federal agencies, so calling it 'federal' is consistent with the post's description of the 'full force of the federal government'.[4][5]
Sources
5 sources: 4 primary, 1 not rated
- 1MSTF Arrests 29 Wednesday on Multiple Felonies, Including Homicide, 1st-Degree Murder; Recovers 7 Guns | U.S. Marshals Servicestage.usmarshals.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2Four Arrested on Separate Murders Charges in One Dayusmarshals.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Press Release | U.S. Marshals Servicedev.usmarshals.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4One Year In, the Memphis Safe Task Force Has Deliveredblackburn.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5Trump's Memphis Task Force has no end date in sight. Here's whydesmoinesregister.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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