let’s talk about the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives thing. It’s like this list the FBI keeps, you know? Back in the day, like in 1949, J. Edgar Hoover, the big shot at the FBI, and this dude William Kinsey Hutchinson from the news were just shooting the breeze. They were like, “How can we nab these hardcore criminals?” So, their chat turned into this news article that got a ton of hype. And on March 14, 1950, the FBI was all official, like, “Hey, check out this list, we’re gonna help cops catch the baddest dudes.” First guy on the list was Thomas J. Holden, some robber and part of the Holden–Keating Gang, right from the get-go.
Here are some people on the list and their stories:
Alexis Flores
Date Added: June 2, 2007
Sequence Number: 487
Comments: Flores is wanted for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 2000. He was deported to his native Honduras in 2005 after serving a prison term for forgery in Arizona. He was added to the list after his deportation when his DNA was matched to the DeJesus crime.
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel
Date Added: April 18, 2017
Sequence Number: 514
Comments: Accused of straight-up murdering his wife in a donut shop back in 2015, then he dipped. Guy’s got ties all over the place.. He was last seen taking a shuttle to Pennsylvania Station in Newark. According to authorities, he has connections to Canada, Georgia, Illinois, India, Kentucky, and New Jersey.
Alejandro Castillo
Date Added: October 24, 2017
Sequence Number: 516
Comments: Castillo is wanted in connection with the August 2016 murder of a 23-year-old woman, Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le, whom he had previously dated. The two became acquainted while working together in a restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Arnoldo Jimenez
Date Added: May 8, 2019
Sequence Number: 522
Comments: Talk about messed up – this guy supposedly killed his wife right after they tied the knot in 2012. They found her dead in her bathtub, like, hours after their wedding.
Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez (captured)
Date Added: October 13, 2020
Sequence Number: 524
Comments: Villarreal-Hernandez was wanted for directing individuals to track and murder a man in Southlake, Texas, in May 2013. He was captured in Mexico City on January 7, 2023.
Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias
Date Added: November 3, 2021
Sequence Number: 526
Comments: Archaga Carias is charged federally in the Southern District of New York with racketeering conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession and conspiracy to possess machine guns. He is alleged to be the leader of MS-13 for all of Honduras, responsible for various criminal activities.
Ruja Ignatova
Date Added: June 30, 2022
Sequence Number: 527
Comments: Ignatova is wanted for her alleged leadership of a massive fraud scheme called OneCoin. She was last seen in October 2017 in Athens, Greece, and has ties to her birthplace of Bulgaria and Germany.
Omar Alexander Cardenas
Date Added: July 20, 2022
Sequence Number: 528
Comments: Cardenas is wanted for his alleged involvement in the murder of a man outside a barbershop in Los Angeles, California, in the summer of 2019.
Wilver Villegas Palomino
Date Added: April 14, 2023
Sequence Number: 530
Comments: Villegas-Palomino is a member of the National Liberation Army or Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a transnational criminal organization and foreign terrorist organization. He is charged with Narcoterrorism, International Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy, and International Cocaine Distribution.
Donald Eugene Fields II
Date Added: May 25, 2023
Sequence Number: 531
Comments: On December 8, 2022, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Donald Eugene Fields II, who is wanted for the alleged sex trafficking of at least one child in Missouri between approximately 2013 and 2017.
