The U.S. Marshals Service had a big month in Rhode Island in June, netting 51 arrests and snagging an alleged murderer, an accused child molester and the suspect in a shooting last winter at a Providence strip club as part of a nationwide push to remove violent fugitives from the streets.

Charles “C.J.” Wyant, supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal in Rhode Island, said the local arrests included five people accused of sexual assault, three alleged sex offenders and two men wanted in a Louisiana slaying. They came as part of a national sweep, called Operation FALCON, in which marshals joined forces with local and state police and the attorney general’s office.

The notable arrests included in Johnny A. Tineo, whom marshals arrested last month on a warrant for allegedly beating his girlfriend. Weeks later, the police found Ingrid Gonzalez, the girlfriend and mother of two, dead of apparent head injuries. Marshals arrested Tineo in New York City Sunday night, hours after Gonzalez’s body was found in her Silver Lake home. Tineo, 35, was charged with murder.

Marshals and the police picked up Jonathan Quaweay on June 30 in Atlanta. Quaweay had been on the run since March, when, according to the Providence police, he shot up the Sportsman’s Inn and Gentleman’s Club after an argument over spilled beer turned into a fight. The police say Quaweay went into the crowd gathered in the strip club’s lobby, and shot a bartender, an exotic dancer and a patron, and hit the boot of one of the employees. The shooting victims survived. His arrest came shortly after a segment on his case aired on the television program America’s Most Wanted.

Wyant also noted the arrest of Luis Beltran, accused of child molestation, who was arrested in Puerto Rico the day before he was to leave for the Dominican Republic. He faces three counts of child molestation in Rhode Island.

Marshals snagged Joshua Parker in Newport and Norman Heflin, a native Rhode Islander, in New Bedford. Both have been accused of slaying a 17-year-old youth in a botched armed robbery in Louisiana, Wyant said.

Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally), now in its fifth year, has made a total of 91,086 arrests and cleared 117,874 warrants, according to the Marshals Service.

In Rhode Island, the push isn’t as pronounced as in urban areas because the service routinely works with local and state agencies due to the state’s small size, Wyant said. “In Rhode Island, we do this every day,” he said. “We help them grab as many as we can.”

kmulvane@projo.com