Members of the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team, narcotics division personnel and the K-9 unit arrested Matthew Neil Defriese, one of the department's 12 Most Wanted fugitives, Monday at about 6:30 p.m.
Defriese was arrested on outstanding warrants for rape, four counts of theft of property, vandalism, resisting arrest, criminal trespass and assault, according to a sheriff's department news release. The circumstances of his arrest were not immediately released.
He was booked into the Hamilton County Jail.