[dragonwriter]

> Skipping town on a sentence puts one in a rarified category where enforcement is now a federal problem

Enforcement of federal crimes like those Holmes was charged with is federal to start with. Skipping sentence makes it a US Marshals’ problem, though.

> I’m aware of one case where for a suspect in a murder, the FBI put together a yacht party in a foreign country, got the target on the ship, sailed it out to international waters, and took them into custody at that point.

Federal law enforcement has straight up hired people to kidnap a suspect from a country with which we have an extradition treaty; your example is hardly extreme. (And I’m talking about before the War on Terror.)

Though the best example of that is the DEA, not the FBI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alvarez-Macha...