Crime & Safety

Salem Police Help Secret Service Nab Massachusetts Fugitive

Gursat Otucu was found hiding in a Salem hotel.

Salem Police assisted United States Secret Service and Belmont, Mass. Police on Friday in catching a suspect wanted on felony charges of larceny and uttering counterfeit notes.

Gursat Otucu, 42, of Belmont, Mass. was charged as a fugitive from justice.

Otucu was taken into custody without incident at 4 p.m. Friday after he was found hiding out at the La Quinta hotel.

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He was processed and later held on $25,000 bail as a fugitive from justice.

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