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2025-03-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Three FBI Most Wanted fugitive arrests in two months signal return to 'premier' agency: former agent
[FoxNews] FBI Director Kash Patel said the three arrests since Jan. 20 were no 'accident'

The FBI has had prompt success capturing fugitives since President Trump took office, according to Director Kash Patel.

Patel announced on Tuesday that the FBI has apprehended three fugitives from the agency’s 10 Most Wanted list since Jan. 20.

"This is the FBI that I was proud to work for, and I'm really excited to see that they have already arrested several of the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives," former FBI agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker told Fox News Digital. "When President Trump took over in 2017 in his first administration, I was a violent crime agent in Miami, and I specifically remember that he said that his top priority was to focus on violent criminals."

Parker believes that in his second term, Trump’s "focus" is what "Americans care about most: making America safe, focusing on violent crime and taking the most violent criminals off the street."

Patel on Tuesday said the FBI, Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi "have captured our third fugitive on the Ten Most Wanted list since January 20, 2025."

"That’s not an accident," Patel wrote on X. "When you let good cops be good cops, this is what happens. This administration is giving the new FBI and AG Bondi the resources to get the job done — and we won’t stop."

The FBI told Fox News Digital that the three fugitives captured since January are as follows:

Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales – Captured 3/18/25

Roman-Bardales, 47, is an alleged MS-13 key senior leader accused of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to provide and conceal material support and resources to terrorists, narco-terrorism conspiracy and alien smuggling conspiracy.

Authorities took Roman-Bardales into custody in Mexico on Monday, then extradited to the United States for legal proceedings.

Arnoldo Jimenez – Captured 1/30/25

A second Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive was arrested in Mexico on Jan. 30.

Arnoldo Jimenez is accused of murdering his wife, who was found dead in the bathtub of their apartment, less than 48 hours after they were married in Burbank, Illinois, in 2012. He is also accused of fleeing to avoid prosecution.

Donald Eugene Fields II – Captured 1/25/25

The first FBI 10 Most Wanted fugitive arrest under the Trump administration took place in Florida in January, when Lady Lake Police Sgt. Michelle Bilbrey arrested 60-year-old Donald Eugene Fields II during a routine traffic stop on Jan. 25.

Fields is charged with child sex trafficking and child rape charges in federal and state court. He is accused of knowingly attempting to recruit, entice, provide, patronize and solicit a minor into engaging in a commercial sex act from about January 2013 until June 2017.

Earlier this month, Atlanta police identified and detained Justin Smith, who is not on the Top 10 list but is on the FBI's general Most Wanted list. Smith allegedly shot his pregnant girlfriend in the head multiple times in Philadelphia in 2021, killing her and her unborn child.


Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-20 08:17|| || Front Page|| [11162 views ]  Top

#1 What this signals is that the FBI has other priorities before Trump took office.
Posted by Angstrom 2025-03-20 12:00||   2025-03-20 12:00|| Front Page Top

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