Tacoma police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a 2004 gang-motivated slaying on Tacoma's East Side.

A warrant had been issued in December 2006 for the arrest of Danny Cherm, 25. At that time, prosecutors had charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Saron Tith.

Tacoma police found him Thursday. Detectives had received information that Cherm was in the area, department spokesman Mark Fulghum said.

"They went out looking for him, located him and he was taken into custody without incident," Fulghum said.

Cherm was booked into Pierce County Jail on the murder warrant and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.

Cherm was one of the longest tenured faces on the Tacoma Police Department's Most Wanted list.

He is one of three men charged with shooting Tith. Cherm had previously charged in the slaying but prosecutors dismissed the case against him for lack of evidence, retaining the option to refile. The charges were refiled in 2006 when new evidence came forward.

Tith was killed on May 23, 2004, on the East Side in a gang-on-gang shooting. On the night of his death, Tith rode in a car with other gangsters.

The car passed a group of rival gang members who were loitering near a storefront, court documents say. The riders flung hand gestures toward the gangsters on the sidewalk.

The court documents say that was all the motive the Pirus needed. A witness heard Cherm say, "Let's go get 'em," and saw the other two defendants pull guns as they got into Cherm's car and gave chase, the documents say.

About 10 minutes later, the car with Tith in it reached the intersection of East 39th Street and Roosevelt Avenue. A group of young men concealed in bushes emerged and started shooting at it. One bullet hit Tith in the head and killed him. Police recovered 15 shell casings from three guns at the scene.

Miquel Diaz Elrod pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Tith's death last year. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The other defendant, Bunnan Orn, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in March 2008. He was sentenced to nine months in custody.