A 32-year-old man wanted in connection with a Florida stabbing was apprehended in Chicago on Tuesday, November 3, after answering the door to an apartment in the 100 block of West Elm Street. The Cook County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit and the US Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force investigated Deontae Henry before apprehending him.
According to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, the case began on October 13, when the United States Marshals Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force contacted investigators in Illinois for assistance in locating Henry. According to the sheriff’s office, Henry had an arrest warrant out of Broward County for aggravated violence and bodily harm with a deadly weapon. Investigators discovered Henry was staying at the West Elm Street address, and the sheriff’s office said he was apprehended there after answering the door.
The sheriff’s office announced that Henry is now being held at Cook County Jail while awaiting extradition to Florida. The account does not disclose when or where the alleged stabbing occurred, nor does it identify an alleged victim—data that are still linked to the underlying Broward County investigation rather than the arrest itself.
According to Florida law, aggravated battery with a dangerous weapon is a second-degree felony. That statute outlines how the offense is commonly classified under state law and makes no conclusion regarding Henry’s guilt or the facts of his case.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office highlighted in its release that offenders are deemed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law, a typical reminder that the office included with the arrest report.
In Henry’s case, Cook County deputies collaborated with the United States Marshals’ Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Taskforce. The United States Marshals Service reports that its Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force has arrested over 117,700 fugitives since its inception. In a similar case from April 2024, the agency credited the Eastern District of Wisconsin Fugitive Task Force, which is part of the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, with apprehending a fugitive in Racine, Wisconsin, in collaboration with local police, the county sheriff’s office, and the fire department, according to a U.S. Marshals Service release.
Henry’s case is still in the hands of Cook County Jail officials, pending extradition to Florida. No additional information on a court date or the case’s ultimate outcome has been revealed.
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