The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 2020s is a list, maintained for an eighth decade, of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. At any given time, the FBI is actively searching for 12,000 fugitives. As of November 15, 2023[update], nine new fugitives have been added to the list.
FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 2020s
The modern header with blue border used by the FBI on top Ten Fugitive wanted posters since at least 2002, on both the FBI internet web site and in public presentations of the wanted posters.[1]
The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before his or her appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.
The following fugitives made up the top Ten list to begin the 2020s:
• Still at large but removed from the list. • Wanted for the murder of his wife and their two children in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001.[2] • He was removed from the list on November 3, 2021, for no longer meeting the list criteria.[3]
• Still at large but removed from the list. • Allegedly killed an armored car guard in Phoenix, Arizona during a bank robbery.[5] • He was removed from the list on September 7, 2022, for no longer meeting the list criteria.[6][7]
• Captured. • Wanted for the murders of his two teenage daughters. The girls died of multiple gunshot wounds on January 1, 2008, in Irving, Texas.[8] • Arrested on August 26, 2020, in Justin, Texas.[9]
• Captured. • Wanted for his involvement in several crimes committed in Tacoma, Washington. He allegedly fired multiple shots into a random car, killing a 20-year-old woman and seriously wounding her brother. In a separate incident he allegedly fired a single gunshot towards bystanders, striking and killing an innocent male victim.[11] • Arrested on June 5, 2020, in Tenancingo, Mexico.[12]
• Still at large. • Wanted for his alleged involvement in the murder of a co-worker in Charlotte, North Carolina. The victim’s body was located in a wooded area with a gunshot wound to the head.[13]
• Captured. • Wanted for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Kiki Camarena in 1985.[14] Additionally, he allegedly held an active key leadership position directing the activities of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Caro-Quintero Drug Trafficking Organization,[15] one of the former's subsidiaries.[16] • Arrested on July 15, 2022, in Choix Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico.[17]
• Still at large but removed from the list. • Wanted for allegedly killing his daughter-in-law outside her home in Stony Point, New York.[19] • He was removed from the list on July 20, 2022, for no longer meeting the list criteria.[6][20]
FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 2020s
It was not until June 2020 before any of the previous fugitives were captured. A second fugitive was caught in August 2020, and the first replacement was named in October 2020. Despite being captured in August 2020, the second fugitive was not replaced until September 2021. The minimum reward for information leading to a Ten Most Wanted Fugitive's arrest was increased from $100,000 to $250,000 on May 25, 2023.[21]
The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):[20]
Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez was wanted for the stalking and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire of a 43-year-old male victim on May 22, 2013, in Southlake, Texas. He is also believed to be responsible for a number of murders in Mexico.[22] He was captured in Mexico City on January 7, 2023.[23][24]
Octaviano Juarez-Corro was wanted for the murders of two people in Milwaukee's South Shore Park on Memorial Day, 2006. His wife suffered two gunshot wounds in the chest, but she survived. Two others were injured, with one being hurt gravely.[25] He was captured in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, on February 3, 2022.[26][27]
Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias is wanted for his activities as the alleged leader of MS-13 in Honduras. He is allegedly responsible for supplying MS-13 groups in Central America and the United States with cash, narcotics, and guns, as well as ordering and participating in murders committed by the gang. He was charged in the Southern District of New York with racketeering conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession and conspiracy to possess machine guns.[28] The reward for information leading to his capture was increased to $5 million on February 8, 2023.[29]
Omar Alexander 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.[31]
Michael James Pratt was wanted for his alleged involvement in sex trafficking and the production of child pornography as owner of pornography website GirlsDoPorn.[32] He was captured in Madrid, Spain, on December 21, 2022.[33]
Wilver Villegas-Palomino is wanted for drug-trafficking activities for the National Liberation Army (ELN) Northeastern War Front in the Catatumbo region of Colombia and Venezuela.[34]
Vitel'Homme Innocent, a Haitian national and leader of the Kraze Barye gang, is wanted for his role in the kidnappings of U.S. citizens and the murder of a U.S. citizen who was killed in a botched kidnapping for ransom. The crimes occurred in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.[35]
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