Portage Police Department-Wisconsin, Facebook The Cedar Rapids Police Department has revealed in a media release that they were involved in the arrest of a Wisconsin man who has been a fugitive for the last several months. The man was being sought on an attempted murder charge. Officers from the Cedar Rapids Police Department, as well as Marshals from the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, arrested 37-year-old Canyon Thixton of Portage, Wisconsin at 8:39 this morning in the 3200 block of Kenrich Drive SW. Thixton has been charged with Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide following an attack that happened last September in Portage.