The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives during the 2010s is a list, maintained for a seventh 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. During the 2010s, 29 new fugitives were added to the list. By the close of the decade a total of 523 fugitives had been listed on the Top Ten list, of whom 488 have been captured or located. [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 2010s:
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Notes |
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| Víctor Manuel Gerena | #386 | 1984 | •Still at large but removed from the list. •Wanted in connection with the 1983 armed robbery of approximately $7 million from a security company in Connecticut. [3] •He was removed from the list on December 15, 2016, after being on the list for 32 years, seven months and a day—a record. |
| Glen Stewart Godwin | #447 | 1996 | •Still at large but removed from the list. •Escaped from Folsom State Prison in California in 1987, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder; apprehended in Mexico and murdered a fellow prison inmate in Mexico before escaping from a Mexican prison in September 1991. [4] •He was removed from the list in May 2016 as FBI officials believed that publicity would not assist with his capture. |
| Osama bin Laden [5] | #456 | 1999 | •Killed. •Osama bin Laden was the leader of al-Qaeda and was wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Nairobi, Kenya, and the September 11 Attacks. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda are alleged to be responsible for the October 12, 2000 attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen. [6] [7] •Killed during Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. [8] [9] |
| James J. Bulger | #458 | 1999 | •Captured/Dead •Wanted for his role in 18 murders committed from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s in connection with his leadership of an organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the Boston, Massachusetts area. •Arrested on June 22, 2011, in Santa Monica, California. [10] [11] |
| Robert William Fisher | #475 | 2002 | •Still at large but removed from the list. •Wanted for murder of his wife and their two children in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001. [12] •He was removed from the list on November 3, 2021, for no longer meeting the list criteria. [13] |
| Alexis Flores | #487 | 2007 | •Still at large. •Wanted for kidnapping and killing a 5-year-old girl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [14] |
| Jason Derek Brown | #489 | 2007 | •Still at large but removed from the list. •Allegedly killed an armored car guard in Phoenix, Arizona during a bank robbery. [15] •He was removed from the list on September 7, 2022, for no longer meeting the list criteria. [16] [17] |
| Joe Luis Saenz | #492 | 2009 | •Captured. •Wanted for multiple murders, including three in 1998 and one in 2008. [18] •Arrested on November 22, 2012, in Guadalajara, Mexico. |
| Eduardo Ravelo | #493 | 2009 | •Captured. •Leader of the Barrio Azteca gang in Mexico; wanted for several crimes involving murder and drugs. [19] •Captured in Mexico, the FBI announced on June 26, 2018. [20] |
| Semion Mogilevich | #494 | 2009 | •Still at large but removed from the list. •Alleged organized crime leader; wanted for running a financial scam in Pennsylvania. [21] •He was removed from the list on December 17, 2015 for no longer meeting the list criteria, which includes the publicity to aid in fugitive apprehension and is a continued danger to the community. Mogilevich lives in Russia, which does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. [22] |
It took a year into the new decade before any of the fugitives were captured. The replacements were not named until 2012. The list includes (in FBI list appearance sequence order): [23]
| Name | Sequence Number | Date of Entry | Time Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Justin Toth | #495 | April 10, 2012 | One year |
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| Adam Christopher Mayes | #496 | May 9, 2012 | One day |
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| Fidel Urbina | #497 | June 5, 2012 | Four years |
| Fidel Urbina was wanted for allegedly beating and raping two women in Chicago, Illinois in 1998. [27] He was captured in Chihuahua, Mexico on September 22, 2016. | |||
| Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias | #498 | March 14, 2013 | Thirteen days |
| Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias was wanted for first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 63-year-old Denver resident on August 17, 2011. [28] He was arrested in El Salvador on March 27, 2013. [29] | |||
| José Manuel García Guevara | #499 | June 17, 2013 | One year |
| Jose Manuel Garcia Guevara was wanted for aggravated burglary, rape and murder of 26-year-old Wanda Barton of Lake Charles, Louisiana on February 19, 2008. He surrendered in Mexico on July 30, 2014. [30] | |||
| Walter Lee Williams | #500 | June 17, 2013 | One day |
| Walter Lee Williams was issued a federal arrest warrant in the United States District Court for the Central District of California for sexual exploitation of children, travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, and criminal forfeiture. He was arrested in Mexico the day after he was put on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. | |||
| Juan Elias Garcia | #501 | March 26, 2014 | Two days |
| Juan Elias Garcia, an MS-13 member, shot and killed his girlfriend and toddler execution style in Central Islip, New York. He surrendered in Nicaragua the day after he was put on the Ten Most Wanted List. | |||
| William Bradford Bishop | #502 | April 10, 2014 | Still at large but removed from the list |
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| Eric Frein | #503 | September 18, 2014 | 42 days |
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| Yaser Abdel Said | #504 | December 4, 2014 | Six years |
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| Myloh Jaqory Mason | #505 | December 17, 2015 | 29 days |
| Myloh Jaqory Mason was wanted for two bank robberies in Lakewood, Colorado on September 30 and November 18, 2015. In the first robbery, he and two others, wearing masks and costumes resembling those from the movie Scream , allegedly shoved two bank tellers and told them they were going to die if they didn't open the bank vault. In the second robbery, they, wearing skeleton masks, supposedly brutalized tellers while they were getting into the vault. During their escape, Mason and his accomplices allegedly shot two innocent people. He was captured at a Motel 6 in Thornton on January 15, 2016. | |||
| Brenda Delgado | #506 | April 7, 2016 | Two days |
| Brenda Delgado was wanted for allegedly masterminding a murder-for-hire of Dallas dentist Kendra Hatcher on September 2, 2015. Delgado was allegedly upset that Hatcher was seeing her former boyfriend. After the murder, Delgado fled to Mexico; she was captured in Torreon, Mexico on April 9, 2016. | |||
| Philip Patrick Policarpio | #507 | May 19, 2016 | Nine days |
| Philip Patrick Policarpio was wanted for the murder of his girlfriend, Lauren Elaine Olguin, who was seventeen weeks pregnant with his baby, in the Ramparts section of Los Angeles on April 12, 2016. Policarpio allegedly beat her, then shot her in the face, killing her instantly. At the time of the murder, he was a convicted felon from 2001. He was captured in San Ysidro, California on May 28, 2016. He was convicted on August 29, 2018. | |||
| Luis Macedo | #508 | May 19, 2016 | Fifteen months |
| Luis Macedo was wanted in the May 1, 2009 murder of a 15-year-old boy in Chicago. Macedo, a member of the Latin Kings gang, and his fellow gang members are believed to have beaten up and shot the boy, and then burned the boy's body, all after he refused to give the gang sign. Macedo is alleged to have initiated the attack. He was captured in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on August 27, 2017. [32] | |||
| Shanika Minor | #509 | June 28, 2016 | Three days |
| Shanika S. Minor was wanted in the March 6, 2016 murder in Milwaukee, Wisconsin of a pregnant 23-year-old woman who was her mother's neighbor. According to law enforcement officials, the victim was shot because she was playing her music too loud. Minor was captured in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the FBI confirmed on July 1, 2016. | |||
| Marlon Jones | #510 | December 1, 2016 | One day |
| Marlon Jones, believed to be a member of a narcotics crew in Jamaica, was wanted in the October 15, 2016 murders of four people at a party in Los Angeles. Police say that Jones shot and killed the four because they were members of a rival gang. [33] He was captured in Los Angeles one day after he was added to the list. [34] | |||
| Robert Francis Van Wisse | #511 | December 13, 2016 | Six weeks |
| Robert Francis Van Wisse was wanted in the September 1983 murder of janitorial worker Laurie Stout in Austin, Texas. Police say that Van Wisse, 19 years old and a student at the University of Texas at the time, sexually assaulted and killed her. Although DNA testing was used (although not as precisely as today), he was let go. A 1992 investigation into the murder – with now-advanced technology – determined that Van Wisse was the killer, but he had fled Austin. Charges were issued against him for the murder in 1996. [35] He surrendered to authorities in Laredo, Texas on January 26, 2017. [36] | |||
| Terry A. D. Strickland | #512 | December 15, 2016 | One month |
| Terry A. D. Strickland was wanted in the murders of two men, 38 and 39 years old, in Milwaukee on July 17, 2016. Police say there was a fight with seven or eight other men. Strickland allegedly drew a .40-caliber handgun and began shooting into the crowd, killing two men. His 18-month-old daughter was abandoned in a room which he rented. He was arrested in El Paso, Texas on January 15, 2017, exactly one month after being added to the list. [37] He was sentenced to 60 years in prison on July 26, 2017. | |||
| Walter Yovany Gomez | #513 | April 12, 2017 | Four months |
| Walter Yovany Gomez was wanted in the May 8, 2011 murder of his best friend in Plainfield, New Jersey. Law enforcement officials say that Gomez killed his victim with an aluminum baseball bat, and then cut his throat with a knife, then grabbed a screwdriver and repeatedly stabbed him in the back. Supposedly, Gomez was trying out to become a member of the MS-13 gang. All other accomplices in connection with the murder have been arrested. He was thought to be living in Maryland or West Virginia, where MS-13 is known to have a presence. [38] He was captured in Woodbridge, Virginia on August 11, 2017. [39] | |||
| Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel | #514 | April 18, 2017 | Still at large |
| Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel is wanted in the April 12, 2015 murder of his wife at a donut shop in Hanover, Maryland. Police say that Patel attacked his wife several times with an object, killing her. [40] | |||
| Santiago Villalba Mederos | #515 | September 25, 2017 | Three years |
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| Alejandro Castillo | #516 | October 24, 2017 | Still at large |
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| Jesus Roberto Munguia | #517 | November 13, 2017 | Three months |
| Jesus Roberto Munguia was wanted for the July 2, 2008 murder of his wife in Las Vegas, Nevada. Police say that after he locked their four children (age 6 to 12 at the time) in his house, he put her in a car, bound her in seat belts and used jumper cables to tie her to the car seat's headrest. He then allegedly killed her with a blunt object. He and his wife had separated earlier over accusations of infidelity. He is known to be a member of the TEPA 13 gang. [44] He was captured in Mexico, the FBI announced on February 15, 2018. [45] | |||
| Rafael Caro Quintero | #518 | April 12, 2018 | Four years |
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| Antwan Mims | #519 | June 27, 2018 | One month |
| Antwan Mims was wanted in the March 25, 2018 murder of two people in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Police say he shot and killed two people at a house party. He is known to be a member of the Gangster Disciples gang. [48] He was captured in Atlanta, Georgia on July 31, 2018. [49] | |||
| Greg Alyn Carlson | #520 | September 27, 2018 | Four months |
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| Lamont Stephenson | #521 | October 11, 2018 | Four months |
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| Arnoldo Jimenez | #522 | May 8, 2019 | Still at large |
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| Eugene Palmer | #523 | May 29, 2019 | Still at large but removed from the list |
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As the decade closed, the following were still at large as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives:
| Name | Sequence number | Date of entry |
|---|---|---|
| Robert William Fisher | #475 | Jun 29, 2002 |
| Alexis Flores | #487 | Jun 2, 2007 |
| Jason Derek Brown | #489 | Dec 8, 2007 |
| Yaser Abdel Said | #504 | Dec 4, 2014 |
| Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel | #514 | Apr 18, 2017 |
| Santiago Villalba Mederos | #515 | Sep 25, 2017 |
| Alejandro Castillo | #516 | Oct 24, 2017 |
| Rafael Caro Quintero | #518 | Apr 12, 2018 |
| Arnoldo Jimenez | #522 | May 8, 2019 |
| Eugene Palmer | #523 | May 29, 2019 |
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