The nationwide manhunt for former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s one-time chief of staff Roy McGrath has ended with the fugitive wounded in a “shooting incident” involving an FBI agent, according to the bureau.
McGrath was taken into custody in the Knoxville, Tennessee, area on Monday, according to a source briefed on the matter.
“The FBI is reviewing an agent-involved shooting which occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 3, 2023. During the arrest the subject, Roy McGrath, sustained injury and was transported to the hospital,” the FBI said in a statement.
“The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously. In accordance with FBI policy, the shooting incident is under investigation by the FBI’s Inspection Division,” the statement continued.
Additional details about the arrest were not immediately available.
CNN previously reported that McGrath, who served as the top aide to Hogan, a Republican, for a few months during the summer of 2020, faced charges related to an alleged scheme to bilk Maryland out of more than $276,000.
McGrath pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was released on bond, the US Marshals Service said in a statement last month.
An arrest warrant had been issued for McGrath, of Naples, Florida, after he failed to appear for his scheduled trial in Baltimore in March.
McGrath was indicted by a federal grand jury in October 2021 on charges that he defrauded the Maryland Environmental Service, a state-operated corporation where he served as executive director before joining Hogan’s office, of a $233,647.23 severance payment by “falsely telling them that the Governor was aware of and approved the payment,” according to the Justice Department.
The indictment also alleged that McGrath directed MES funds to an art museum for…
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