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Return of FBI Top Ten Fugitive Michael Jason Registe to Columbus, Georgia

FBI Atlanta July 23, 2009
  • Special Agent Stephen Emmett (404) 679-6451

ATLANTA—Special Agent in Charge Gregory Jones, FBI Atlanta; and Chief Ricky Boren, Columbus, Georgia Police Department, announce the return of FBI Top Ten Fugitive Michael Jason Registe to Columbus, Georgia. 

Michael Jason Registe, wanted for the July, 2007 double murders of Columbus State University students Bryan Kilgore and Randy Newton Jr. at Columbus, Georgia, was arrested by St. Maarten police officials in conjunction with the Antilles Director of Public Prosecution and through coordination with the FBI’s Legal Attaché, Bridgetown, Barbados. 

Registe, accompanied by FBI agents as well as a Columbus, Georgia police officer, landed at Columbus, Georgia via government jet and, upon landing on U.S. soil, was turned over to local authorities for processing. Registe has been indicted by a grand jury and will now await arraignment on those state charges.

The public is reminded that all persons are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.