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., nine new fugitives have been added to the list.
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:
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert William Fisher |
| 2002 | 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.[1] He was removed from the list on November 3, 2021, for no longer meeting the list criteria.[2] | |
| Alexis Flores |
| 2007 | Still at large. Wanted for kidnapping, raping and killing a 5-year-old girl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3] | |
| Jason Derek Brown |
| 2007 | Still at large but removed from the list. Allegedly killed an armored car guard in Phoenix, Arizona during a bank robbery.[4] He was removed from the list on September 7, 2022, for no longer meeting the list criteria.[5] [6] | |
| Yaser Abdel Said |
| 2014 | Captured. Wanted for the murders of his two teenage daughters. The girls died of multiple gunshot wounds on January 1, 2008, in Irving, Texas.[7] Arrested on August 26, 2020, in Justin, Texas.[8] | |
| Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel |
| 2017 | Still at large. Wanted for the April 2015 murder of his wife at a Dunkin' Donuts shop in Hanover, Maryland.[9] | |
| Santiago Villalba Mederos |
| 2017 | 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.[10] Arrested on June 5, 2020, in Tenancingo, Mexico.[11] | |
| Alejandro Castillo |
| 2017 | 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.[12] | |
| Rafael Caro Quintero |
| 2018 | Captured. Wanted for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Kiki Camarena in 1985.[13] Additionally, he allegedly held an active key leadership position directing the activities of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Caro-Quintero Drug Trafficking Organization,[14] one of the former's subsidiaries.[15] Arrested on July 15, 2022, in Choix Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico.[16] | |
| Arnoldo Jimenez |
| 2019 | Still at large. Wanted for allegedly murdering his wife less than 24 hours after marrying her.[17] | |
| Eugene Palmer |
| 2019 | Still at large but removed from the list. Wanted for allegedly killing his daughter-in-law outside her home in Stony Point, New York.[18] He was removed from the list on July 20, 2022, for no longer meeting the list criteria.[19] | |
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.[20]
The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order):
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez |
| October 13, 2020 | Two years | |
| 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.[21] He was captured in Mexico City on January 7, 2023.[22] [23] | ||||
| Octaviano Juarez-Corro |
| September 8, 2021 | Five months | |
| 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.[24] He was captured in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, on February 3, 2022.[25] [26] | ||||
| Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias |
| November 3, 2021 | Still at large | |
| 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.[27] The reward for information leading to his capture was increased to $5 million on February 8, 2023.[28] | ||||
| Ruja Ignatova |
| June 30, 2022 | Still at large | |
| Ruja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged leadership of OneCoin, a massive cryptocurrency fraud scheme.[29] | ||||
| Omar Alexander Cardenas |
| July 20, 2022 | Still at large | |
| 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.[30] | ||||
| Michael James Pratt |
| September 7, 2022 | Three months | |
| Michael James Pratt was wanted for his alleged involvement in sex trafficking and the production of child pornography as owner of pornography website GirlsDoPorn.[31] He was captured in Madrid, Spain, on December 21, 2022.[32] | ||||
| Wilver Villegas-Palomino |
| April 14, 2023 | Still at large | |
| 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.[33] | ||||
| Donald Eugene Fields II |
| May 25, 2023 | Still at large | |
| Donald Eugene Fields II is wanted for his alleged involvement in child sex trafficking in Missouri between 2013 and 2017. | ||||
| Vitel'Homme Innocent |
| November 15, 2023 | Still at large | |
| 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.[34] | ||||