FBI searching for three fugitives now featured on Kansas City billboards
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching for three federal fugitives, and Kansas City-area residents will now see their faces on billboards across the metro.
Zamewick “Buck” McCray, Devion “Rooster” Miles and Jermon “Crowe” McCray were among 15 people indicted in September in a $7.9 million drug conspiracy.
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All three were charged with distribution of fentanyl and were last seen in Kansas City. They also have strong ties to the Chicago area.
Zamewick McCray, 31, is described as a 5-foot-7 Black man, weighing 130 pounds. Jermon McCray is described as a 29-year-old Black man, approximately 5-foot-7 and 130 pounds. Miles is a 28-year-old Black man, weighing 130 pounds and 5-foot-7.
Digital billboards across the KC area will now display wanted signs of the three men. They’ll be located at I-70 and State Line, I-435 near 23rd Street, I-35 near Chouteau Trafficway, and I-435 near Eastwood Trafficway.
Zamewick McCary billboard (photo via FBI) Devion Miles billboard (photo via FBI) Jermon McCary billboard (photo via FBI
The FBI said they should be considered armed and dangerous, and members of the public should not confront them. Call law enforcement immediately.
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Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477 or report a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.
In Leavenworth County you’ll also see the faces of Desi’Ree Washington,19, Cruz Burris, 15, and Caleb Jackson, 18, on a billboard. All three died this year taking a fake pill that turned out to have a deadly dose of fentanyl. The billboard reads “fentanyl killed our holidays, don’t let it kill yours.”
“Obviously we can’t bring our kids back, but if we can save another child that’s our goal here,” Kelly Garner, Washington’s mother, said.
Parents of the young people on the billboard say they are glad to see the FBI go after suspected fentanyl distributors, but would
“What I’m hearing is they don’t want to investigate or prosecute the small people. They are going for the big fish and while they are trying to investigate the big fish our kids are being killed,” Andy Burris said.
“Make these people accountable that are out here distributing these drugs, because pretty much they are deceiving our children into thinking it’s one thing and they are being murdered,” Garner said.
Each say they know who gave or sold their child the single pill that killed them, but to their knowledge they’ve never been questioned. But if federal authorities can get the people thought to be responsible for millions of dollars of fentanyl and meth making it into the metro, they call it a start.
