PEOSTA, Iowa — A man wanted on a first-degree murder charge in Racine, Wisconsin, was arrested on October 28, 2026, after law enforcement officers located him at a home near Peosta in Dubuque County, according to Radio Dubuque reporting published on October 29, 2026.

The man was identified in that report as Lamar Payne Jr., 38. Officers with the U.S. Marshals Service, working with other law enforcement agencies, took him into custody at a home in the 9500 block of Swiss Valley Road near Peosta, where the report said he had been living. The report did not name the other agencies involved in the arrest, and it did not describe how officers learned he was at that address.

Payne is being held in the Dubuque County Jail while he awaits extradition to Wisconsin to face the charge there, the report said. No extradition hearing date was included in the report, and no information was provided about whether Payne intends to contest extradition or waive it.

The underlying Racine case was not detailed in the report. It did not give a date for the alleged crime, describe the circumstances, or name a victim. Those details remain pending and should not be assumed from the warrant allegation alone. A wanted person or a person charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law, and a murder charge in another state is an allegation that still has to be tested in that state’s courts.

Racine sits in southeastern Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan south of Milwaukee. Peosta is a small city west of Dubuque, and the Swiss Valley Road area lies in the rural part of Dubuque County between Peosta and Dubuque. The arrest therefore brought a Wisconsin fugitive case into a Dubuque County jail cell, with the next legal step taking place in Wisconsin rather than in Iowa.

The U.S. Marshals Service is the federal agency most often tasked with tracking down people wanted on warrants from other jurisdictions, and it regularly works alongside local sheriff’s offices and police departments on such arrests. In this case, the agencies that assisted, the length of time Payne had been in the Peosta area, and the date the Wisconsin warrant was issued were not stated in the available report.

What is established is narrow but significant for tri-state readers: a 38-year-old man wanted for first-degree murder in Racine was found in rural Dubuque County on October 28, 2026, was arrested with the help of federal marshals, and remains in the Dubuque County Jail pending transfer to Wisconsin. Further details, including the extradition timetable and any court dates in Racine, remain pending until Wisconsin court records or a law enforcement statement provide them.