A multi-agency fugitive task force arrested a 46-year-old Indiana man on Thursday evening at a primitive campsite in the Catoosa Wildlife Management Area.

Joey Mineshaw, who faced active child rape warrants out of Marshall County, Alabama, was taken into custody without incident, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

The manhunt began after the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department notified the Smoky Mountains Fugitive Task Force (SMFTF) that Mineshaw might be hiding in Tennessee. Investigators initially traced him to the Prentice Cooper State Forest with the help of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, though he had already departed the area.

Authorities located his pickup truck using automated Flock license plate reading cameras in Crossville. This breakthrough prompted a coordinated search by the SMFTF—comprising the Chattanooga Police Department and 27 regional law enforcement agencies—alongside the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and the FBI. Officers checked Cumberland County campgrounds before spotting his vehicle at the Catoosa Wildlife Management Area.