A man who has topped Ulster County's most wanted list for years was arrested on Sunday, September 14 while playing an Ultimate Frisbee game in Oregon.
Jahson A. Marryshow has been on the lam since 2010, when he allegedly went on a day-long crime spree in Woodstock.
Authorities say that on June 30, 2010, Marryshow stole a car, set a barn on the edge of town on fire as a diversion, and then robbed a Bank of America on Mill Hill Road with a semiautomatic handgun.
Marryshow has confounded Ulster County authorities for years. (He goes by several aliases and his exact age -- somewhere in his early 30s -- is reported differently by different police organizations.)
He narrowly escaped arrest by the Woodstock Police department in October 2010 on an unrelated assault charge, according to a 2010 article by the Daily Freeman.
When police tried to take him into custody on October 3, 2010 in Andy Lee Field in Woodstock, Marryshow broke away and fled on foot. A helicopter search failed to find him.
At the time, the Freeman reports, authorities did not seem to know that Marryshow was also suspected of the bank robbery. Marryshow was formally indicted for the bank robbery a month later, in November 2010.
Ulster County police have been looking for Marryshow ever since.
In 2011, according to the Freeman, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office and the U.S. Marshals Service conducted simultaneous searches for Marryshow in Woodstock, New York City and Louisiana.
A film crew from the A&E channel's "Manhunters" show tagged along the Woodstock portion of the search, but they didn't find Marryshow. The Sheriff's Office also contacted "America's Most Wanted" for help.
An Ulster County detective told the Freeman that the "Manhunters" footage of the raid would only air if Marryshow was captured.
None of it worked until yesterday.
According to press releases from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office and the Eugene Police Department, a tipster contacted the Eugene Police last week to report that Marryshow was living in Eugene.
The Eugene Police contacted the U.S. Marshal's Service, and officers from both agencies canvassed the town for Marryshow.
They found him at 5 p.m. on Sunday, September 14, participating in an Ultimate Frisbee Tournament near a middle school in Eugene.
"Marryshow made no attempt to escape," the press release from the Eugene Police states.
Marryshow is being held in the Lane County Jail as a a fugitive. The Ulster County Sheriff's Office plans to extradite him to Ulster County.
According to the Eugene Register-Guard, Marryshow "reportedly has played in local Frisbee games for several years."
