{"id":218936,"date":"2026-03-25T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:49:08","slug":"dallas-police-us-marshals-arrested-61-people-in-operation-clean-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218936\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Police, US Marshals arrested 61 people in &#8220;Operation Clean Sweep&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The operation lasted from February 2 to March 12 and was focused on fugitives wanted for robbery offenses that happened in Dallas and in the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS, Texas \u2014 Dallas Police and the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force have spent the last six weeks targeting violent offenders across the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through a joint effort known as &#8216;Operation Clean Sweep,&#8217; police have arrested 61 people with robbery warrants for offenses in the city of Dallas and the surrounding area, according to Dallas Police. Officials say some of those taken into custody were also wanted for more serious charges, including aggravated assault and capital murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking for those who are most likely to reoffend, based on their prior history,\u201d said Dallas Police Chief Danial Comeaux<\/p>\n<p>Police say the work isn&#8217;t slowing down either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to stop,\u201d one official said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep doing this every single day, every week, and every month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for Victor Alvelais, conversations about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/video\/news\/local\/dallas-county\/dallas-police-announce-multiple-arrests-in-operation-clean-sweep\/287-ed45628d-39f8-4bcc-aecf-b680e36f2992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">crime and violence<\/a> aren\u2019t theoretical; they\u2019re personal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI once was a perpetrator of violence,\u201d Alvelais said. \u201cI served 26 years in prison because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s working to make sure others don\u2019t follow the same path.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Oak Cliff Empowerment Center, Alvelais has created a community working directly to help de-escalate conflicts, connect people to services, and offer a safe space for conversations that can stop situations before they turn deadly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis space is special,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to attack the problem without adding to the incarceration rate,\u201d Alvelais said. \u201cThe community is not just one entity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alvelais said efforts like Operation Clean Sweep can play an important role, but believes lasting change also requires investment in prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want our communities to be safe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For him, that means stopping violence before it starts\u2014by reaching people early and offering a different path forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The operation lasted from February 2 to March 12 and was focused on fugitives wanted for robbery offenses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-218936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}