FBI Ten Most WantedThe FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is the most wanted list maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which also serves as its principal federal law enforcement agency. The FBI officially announced the list on March 14, 1950, in order to increase law enforcement’s ability to capture dangerous fugitives. Those individuals named on the current list are considered the most dangerous fugitives, and include murderers, rapists and two Mexican drug lords. The FBI offers individual rewards for any information that leads to the capture of the current most wanted, which when combined now currently stands at $21,900,000.
The fugitives who currently feature on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list are those criminals considered to be “particularly dangerous menace to society,” who have escaped justice. Although there is no order in terms of most dangerous, the rewards given indicate the level of urgency in their recapture. The longest featured name on the current list, that of Robert William Fisher, a multiple murderer, was added in June 2002, one of seven men added to the list that year. The names of five men were added in 2007, two of whom, Alexis Flores and Jason Derek Brown are still currently wanted, both for murder.
Yaser Abdel Said would be added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list some seven years after Brown, and was wanted for the murder of his own children before his capture on August 26, 2020. Fifth on the list is Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel, added along with five other men in 2017, including Alejandro Castillo, who are both wanted for murder. The seventh name listed added in April 2018 is drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, possibly the most wanted in terms of notoriety, with a US$20,000,000 reward for his capture. The two names added in 2019, Arnoldo Jimenez and Eugene Palmer, along with Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez who is the latest fugitive listed in 2020, are all wanted for murder and considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Sequence Number: #475
Date of Entry: June 29, 2002
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$100,000
Robert William Fisher is wanted for the triple homicide of his wife and two children. On the evening of April 9, 2001, a neighbour reported hearing a loud argument inside the Fisher home at 10:30 pm. At 8:42am, approximately ten hours later, the house blew up in an explosion.
Phoenix firefighters immediately responded to the explosion, successfully keeping the 20-foot-high blaze from spreading to other houses. They were forced to keep their distance from entering the residence by a series of smaller secondary explosions, believed to be caused by either rifle ammunition or paint cans.
Mary Fisher was discovered to have been shot in the back of the head, and their children Brittney and Bobby’s throats were slashed from ear to ear. Police have theorized that the murders took place between 9:30pm and 10:15pm.
At 10:43pm, Fisher was spotted on an ATM camera, where he withdrew $280. Mary’s Toyota 4Runner was in the background. It was found that the gas line from the back of the house’s furnace had been pulled.
Investigators suspect the accumulating gas was later ignited by a candle that Fisher had allegedly lit, as a sort of delayed fuse would have given him an approximate ten-hour head start in his successful attempt to evade law enforcement.
Fisher’s pre-planned decision to rig the house to explode is believed to have been an attempt to conceal evidence of his crimes and possibly to fool police into believing that he had died in the incident. The burned bodies of his wife and two children were found lying in bed in the burned-out remains, and were identified as 38-year-old Mary, 12-year-old Brittney, and Bobby aged 10.
Investigators have theorized that the motive for Fisher’s murder of his family resulted from him feeling threatened by Mary’s intent to divorce him, and he did not want Brittney and Bobby to go through what he did as a child.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 13, 1961, Fisher is a white male of American nationality, described as having brown hair, blue eyes, light complexion, 6’0″ in height, medium build and 190 pounds in weight. He has surgical scars on his lower back. He is physically fit and is an avid outdoorsman, hunter, and fisherman. He may walk with an exaggerated erect posture and his chest pushed out due to a lower back injury.
Fisher is known to chew tobacco heavily. He has ties to New Mexico and Florida. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on June 29, 2002, there is a US$100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Fisher should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. Fisher is believed to be in possession of several weapons, including a high-powered rifle. The field office investigating this fugitive is located in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sequence Number: #487
Date of Entry: June 2, 2007
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$100,000
Alexis Flores is wanted in connection with the kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus, who had been reported missing five days before her body was found in the basement of an empty apartment building on August 3, 200. She had been sexually assaulted, strangled and wrapped in a trash bag. During the summer of that year, an itinerant homeless drifter known as “Carlos” or “Carlo” had been given shelter, clothing and work as a handyman by Hunting Park, Philadelphia, resident Jorge Contreras.
Police also found a T-shirt bearing a distinct political logo near Iriana’s body with her blood on it. When police questioned Contreras about the shirt, he recognized it as one of the articles of clothing he had lent to “Carlos,” who had not been seen in the area since the girl was reported missing.
An illegal immigrant in the US, Alexis Flores was previously arrested for shoplifting in Arizona in 2002. Two years later, police came to Flores’ residence in response to a noise complaint.
After giving fraudulent identity documents to police, he was arrested for possession of a forgery device, a felony in Arizona. When he was arrested, Flores presented a welcoming demeanour, was friendly, and cooperated with the Police during questioning.
Upon entering his apartment for further investigation, officers noticed pornography spread out across the floors. Flores told immigration officials that he had lived in Schaumburg, Illinois, prior to living in Phoenix.
He was incarcerated for 60 days and deported to Honduras after his release in June 2005. In 2006, Flores’ DNA sample taken in Arizona was added to the Combined DNA Index System, and in March 2007, this was positively matched to the DNA found at the crime scene in the DeJesus murder case in Philadelphia. Investigators have now determined that “Carlos” and Flores are the same person.
A local arrest warrant was obtained on March 22, 2007, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Flores was charged with murder and various other felonies. On the same date, a federal arrest warrant for Flores was obtained in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Born in Honduras on July 18, 1975, Flores is a white (Hispanic) male of Honduran nationality, described as having black hair, brown eyes, light complexion, 5’4″ in height, slim build and 130 to 140 pounds in weight. Flores has scars on his forehead and right cheek.
He uses several alias, including Mario Flores, Mario Roberto Flores, Mario F. Roberto, Alex Contreras, Alesis Contreras. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on June 2, 2007, there is a US$100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Flores should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. Flores has ties to Honduras, and the field office investigating this fugitive is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sequence Number: #489
Date of Entry: December 8, 2007
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$200,000
Jason Derek Brown is suspected of the murder of Robert Keith Palomares, a 24-year-old armoured car guard, carrying the weekend deposits outside the AMC theatre at 4915 E. Ray Road in Phoenix. On November 29, 2004, at approximately 10 a.m., a hooded gunman ambushed and shot Palomares with a .45-caliber semiautomatic Glock, with five out of six bullets fired striking Palomares in the head.
Taken by surprise, Palomares had no time to defend himself, despite being armed. The gunman stole a moneybag containing $56,000 in cash, and running into a nearby alley, he fled the scene on a bicycle. Palomares was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Initially eye-witnesses described the shooter as being anywhere from 25 to 30 years old and Hispanic. However, authorities recovered the bicycle and lifted fingerprints that soon linked Brown to the crime.
His fingerprints had been submitted to state and federal authorities by Brown when he passed a background check after taking a firearms instruction course at Totally Awesome Guns & Range in Salt Lake City.
At that time he was living in an Ahwatukee, Arizona, hotel near an AMC movie theatre, and was captured on surveillance tape having a conversation with another man in the hotel lobby. Police consider this man to be a possible accomplice or witness, however, his identity remains unknown.
As a result he was soon considered the prime suspect in the case, and an arrest warrant was issued on December 4, 2004, by Maricopa County Superior Court, charging Brown with first degree murder and armed robbery. Brown was later also charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in a federal arrest warrant issued on December 6, by the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Brown had developed something of a luxurious lifestyle and expensive tastes in such things as cars, motorbikes, and boats, and in order to support this portrayal of himself as a wealthy man, it is believed that Brown operated check and bank fraud scams for years. Investigators have considered Brown’s desperate financial situation as a possible motive.
Born in Los Angeles, California on July 1, 1969, Brown is a white male of American nationality, described as having blond hair, green eyes, light complexion, 5’10” in height, or medium build and 170 to 180 pounds in weight. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on December 8, 2007, there is a US$200,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Brown should be considered armed and dangerous.
He has ties to California, Arizona, and Utah, while in the past, he has travelled to France and Mexico. Additionally, he may be in the possession of a Glock 9mm and a .45 calibre handgun. The field office investigating this fugitive is located in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sequence Number: #504
Date of Entry: December 4, 2014
Status: Apprehended, August 26, 2020
Time Listed: 2,093 days (5 years, 8 months, 23 days)
Reward: US$100,000
Yaser Abdel Said is wanted for the fatal shootings of his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah, whose bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas on the property of the Omni Mandalay Hotel on January 1, 2008. The girls had previously told family and friends that their father was physically and sexually abusive towards them.
Said was very controlling over his family, and felt that his daughters dishonoured the family by refusing to adhere to traditional Egyptian cultural behaviour. It was reported he would regularly threaten to kill Amina, and it is widely believed that Said killed his daughters as an honor killing.
After Christmas in 2007, Amina and Sarah ran away with their mother Patricia to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Amina’s boyfriend had relatives. Patricia allegedly told her daughters that December 31st was her mother’s death anniversary and that she wanted to drive to East Texas to put flowers on her grave.
However, Yaser, after having inundated Patricia with phone calls, from both himself and other relatives, that were initially unsuccessful, eventually convinced her to return home with the girls.
When Patricia communicated this change of plans to her daughters, Sarah reluctantly agreed to return, while Amina refused, ultimately seeking refuge in her friend’s house.
Patricia attempted to to try and convince Amina to return to Said, but she still refused to go. Patricia insisted, saying that her father had forgiven her and would like the girls to return home. On January 1, 2008, Yaser Said took Amina and Sarah to his taxi cab, kissed them, and told them he was taking them out to eat.
Patricia initially wanted to come along, but Said told her that he wanted to talk to the girls himself. He drove them both to Irving, where he allegedly shot both girls to death in the taxi cab. Amina died instantly, while Sarah managed to call 911 before she died, screaming “Help, my dad shot me! I’m dying, I’m dying!”
Born in Sinai, Egypt on January 27, 1957, Said is a white male of Egyptian nationality, described as having Black and gray hair with a receding hairline, brown eyes, 6’2″ in height and 180 pounds in weight. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on December 4, 2014, there is a US$100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Said should be considered armed and dangerous.
He may seek shelter in communities with Egyptian ties, and also has ties to New York, Texas, Virginia and Canada. Said is known to carry a weapon at all times. On August 26, 2020, Said was arrested after the FBI carried out 24-hour surveillance on a home in Justin, Texas. He had been given refuge by family members, including his son and brother, both of whom were charged with concealing a person from arrest.
Sequence Number: #514
Date of Entry: April 18, 2017
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$100,000
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel is wanted for the murder of his wife, who was killed at a Dunkin’ Donuts store in Hanover, Maryland, in the United States on April 12, 2015. On that night, Patel and his wife Palak were working a night shift at a Dunkin’ Donuts, and surveillance footage showed the couple walking together in the kitchen at around 9:30pm, before disappearing out of view behind some racks.
Moments later, Patel re-emerged without his wife, turned off an oven, and left the store. Customers arriving at the Dunkin’ Donuts store grew concerned when no employees came to serve them. A police officer who happened to be near the store was approached by concerned customers and checked out the scene.
Upon searching the store the officer found the body of 21-year-old Palak Patel, she had been beaten to death and stabbed multiple times with a large kitchen knife. Police then checked the surveillance video and realized the killer was Patel, who had by that time vanished.
After that murder, Patel fled the store and returned to his nearby apartment on foot. He took some personal items, then got a cab to a hotel near an airport in Newark, New Jersey.
The taxi driver reported that Patel was very calm during the journey. Patel was not identified as the suspect until over an hour after the murder, giving him time to escape.
Investigators believe that the couple had an argument, with Palak wanting to return to India and Patel instead wishing to remain in the U.S.
It was revaled that during the last conversation Palak had with family, she expressed her wish to return home to India. This call was made moments before Palak was murdered by her husband and it had been overheard by him. Police believe that Patel murdered his wife for this reason.
Patel checked into a hotel in Newark and was seen on surveillance video at the counter paying in cash for a room. He checked out the following morning. Authorities believe Patel could have fled the country or could be hiding with relatives. Patel had a visa to be in the U.S., but it had expired by the time he carried out the murder.
Born in Kantrodi Ta Viramgam, Gujarat, India on May 15, 1990, Patel is an Asian male of Indian nationality, described as having brown hair, brown eyes, 5’9″ in height and 165 pounds in weight. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on April 18, 2017, there is a US$100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Patel should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Having previously worked as an employee of donut shop, Patel was last seen at Pennsylvania Station near his hotel in Newark, New Jersey. He has connections in Canada, India, New Jersey, Kentucky, Georgia, and Illinois. The field office investigating this fugitive is located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sequence Number: #516
Date of Entry: October 24, 2017
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$100,000
Alejandro Rosales Castillo is wanted for the murder of Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 9, 2016. At that time, the then-17-year-old Castillo worked at a Showmars restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina and was co-workers with 23-year-old Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le. The two reportedly briefly dated and at some point Le had lent Castillo some money which he never paid her back.
After his split from Le, Castillo’s new girlfriend was 19-year-old Ahmia Feaster, a co-workers of theirs at the restaurant. On August 9, 2016, Castillo sent a text to Le saying that he would like to repay the money she had previously loaned him.
Le agreed to meet Castillo at a QuikTrip located on Eastway Drive in Charlotte. That same afternoon Castillo was picked up by Feaster, who collected him in her red Dodge Caliber and took him to the meeting. Le was last seen alive at the QuikTrip where she and Castillo had agreed to meet.
It is believed that instead of repaying her, Castillo forced Le to withdraw all the money from her bank account, possibly using a gun. According to Le’s uncle, her bank statements showed that she withdrew $1,000 from an ATM.
Once this withdrawal was complete there was no money left in her bank account. Investigators believe that Castillo then drove Le to a wooded area in Cabarrus County where he shot her once in the head, killing her, before dumping her body into a ravine.
After the murder, Castillo and Feaster fled in Le’s black 4-door 2003 Toyota Corolla, driving from North Carolina to Phoenix, Arizona. There they parked Le’s car at a bus shelter in Phoenix, where it was later found abandoned on August 15. Castillo and Feaster then made their way to Nogales, Arizona where they crossed the border into Mexico.
Castillo was seen, via surveillance footage, crossing the border into Mexico. He could be reside in San Francisco de los Romo, Aguascalientes, or Pabellón de Arteaga in the state of Aguascalientes. He may also be hiding in the states of Guanajuato or Veracruz.
Born in Arizona on November 26, 1998, Castillo is a white (Hispanic) male of American nationality, described as having black hair, brown eyes, 5’6″ in height and approximately 180 to 190 pounds in weight. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on October 24, 2017, there is a US$100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Castillo should be considered armed and dangerous with violence tendencies, and an escape risk.
His last known residence was in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he has ties to Phoenix, Arizona. He may have travelled to the Mexican states of Guanajuato or Veracruz. The field office investigating this fugitive is located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sequence Number: #518
Date of Entry: April 12, 2018
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: –
Reward: US$20,000,000
Rafael Caro Quintero is wanted for his involvement in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of a DEA agent as well as drug trafficking charges. Considered one of the godfathers of Mexican drug trafficking since the 1970’s, Caro Quintero was a high ranking member of the now defunct Guadalajara Cartel, and was responsible for overseeing the shipments of the Colombian cocaine trade into the United States.
At the height of his power he became involved in the murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena Salazar, who had been working undercover in Mexico, and was said to be responsible for leading the authorities a ranch where 10,000 tons of marijuana, totalling a loss of around $160 million, were burned by the authorities.
Caro Quintero and other high-ranking members of the Guadalajara Cartel then sought revenge against the DEA. Camarena and his pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar were kidnapped in Guadalajara on February 7, 1985, and taken to a residence owned by Caro Quintero.
There they were brutally tortured and murdered. Caro Quintero bribed Mexican officials to allow him to escape to Costa Rica, where he was later arrested on April 4, 1985. Charged with involvement in Camarena’s murder, he was sentenced to 40 years for the murder and other crimes.
By the 1990’s, his drug empire collapsed, and the surviving members of the Guadalajara Cartel went on the establish their own drug trafficking organizations.
After serving 28 years in prison, the sudden release of Caro Quintero was ordered by a tribunal on August 9, 2013. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama were “extremely disappointed” by his release, and stated their intent to pursue him for pending charges in the U.S. Following his release from prison, Caro Quintero had not been seen in public.
In March 2018, he is listed among the 15 most-wanted fugitives of Interpol, and in April of that same year he was added to the FBI Most Wanted List. It is suspected by authorities that Caro Quintero is now holds an influential leadership position within his own drug trafficking organization with ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.
Born in La Noria, Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico, on October 3, 1952, Caro Quintero is a white (Hispanic) male of Mexican nationality, described as having formerly black now graying hair, brown eyes, 6’0″ in height and approximately 159 to 170 pounds in weight.
Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on April 12, 2018, there is a US$20,000,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Castillo should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. Caro-Quintero, also known as “Rafa” is a member of the Sinaloa Cartel and is known to frequent the area of Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico, and also has previous ties to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, and Costa Rica.
Sequence Number: #522
Date of Entry: May 8, 2019
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$100,000
Arnoldo Jimenez is wanted for allegedly killing his wife, Estrella Carrera, on May 12, 2012, the day after their wedding. On that day this crime occurred, the couple had dinner with family and friends and then headed to a night club, from where they left around 4 a.m. on the morning of May 12.
Investigators suspect that on the way home the couple got into a heated argument in Jimenez’s black 2006 four-door Maserati, and that he then fatally stabbed Carrera multiple times in his car and dragged her body into the bathroom tub of her apartment in Burbank, Illinois.
When Carrera failed to show up to pick up her children, family members reported her missing. Her body was found inside her apartment on the afternoon of May 13, and police confirmed there was no sign of a forced entry.
Jimenez had also disappeared and his car was nowhere to be found. Three days later, on May 15, he was charged with first degree murder by the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, and a state warrant was issued for his arrest that same day.
A federal arrest warrant was issued by the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on May 17, 2012, after he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
It is believed he had used his cellphone in Chicago, then Southern Illinois on May 12, then later in Memphis, Tennessee, and then in Arkansas. On May 13, 2019, he had made several calls from Houston and then in Hidalgo, Mexico. His brother Humberto was arrested by police during a drug operation in September 2012, and inside his garage police discovered Arnoldo’s black Maserati.
Blood found inside the car led police to believed that Jimenez had killed Carrera in his car and dragged her body into the bathtub inside her apartment. They suspect that Humberto drove Arnoldo to Mexico in his car and left him there.
Born in Texas on February 19, 1982, Jimenez is a White (Hispanic) male of American nationality, described as having black hair, brown eyes, 6’0″ in height and 200 to 225 pounds in weight. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on May 8, 2019, there is a US$100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Jimenez should be considered armed and dangerous.
It is strongly suspected that he may have fled to Durango, Mexico, specifically in the area of Santiago Papasquiaro. He may also frequent Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and has previously resided in Chicago, Illinois, where the field office investigating this fugitive is located.
Sequence Number: #523
Date of Entry: May 29, 2019
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$100,000
Eugene Palmer is wanted for allegedly shooting and killing his daughter-in-law, Tammy Palmer, on September 24, 2012, in Stony Point, New York. Palmer’s son, John Palmer, was married to Tammy Palmer, and together the couple lived with their two children at a property owned by Eugene in Stony Point, New York.
Palmer lived next door to the couple, and began to witness how the relationship between John and Tammy had slowly begun to deteriorate, until the couple eventually started seeing other people. Tammy filed for a restraining order against John, which enraged Eugene.
Authorities believe that when Tammy threatened to file for divorce and also said she would sue for the land belonging to Eugene, this started a feud between Eugene and his daughter-in-law and caused them to have a heated argument.
On the morning of Monday, September 24, 2012, Tammy walked her two children to catch the school bus. Police suspect that Eugene Palmer was hiding in the woods nearby waiting to ambush Tammy when she returned home.
As Tammy walked back towards her home, Palmer allegedly began shooting at her with a shotgun from a distance. While the first shot struck her in the arm, the second shot missed, however the third shot, delivered at close range, hit her in the chest and killed her.
After the shooting, Palmer fled the scene in a pickup truck, which was later found abandoned near Harriman State Park in Rockland County. He then fled into the park on foot. Police tracker dogs were called, and followed Palmer’s scent to a campground in the woods, but was then lost, however.
Despite multiple searches, no body or trace of Palmer has been found. Family members of Palmer have said they believe that he died in the park, but Haverstraw police said no body was ever found during multiple searches of the area. As a result, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Palmer on June 10, 2013.
Born in New York on April 4, 1939, Palmer is a white male of American nationality, described as having gray balding hair, brown eyes, 5’10” in height and 220 pounds in weight. His left thumb is deformed, and at the time of his entry, 80-year-old Palmer is the oldest person to be placed on the list.
Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on May 29, 2019, there is a US$100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Palmer should be considered armed and dangerous. He is an experienced hunter and outdoorsman, but depends on medications for a heart condition and diabetes. Authorities believe Palmer might be hiding in Florida or Upstate New York, where he has relatives. The field office investigating this fugitive is located in New York.
Sequence Number: #524
Date of Entry: October 13, 2020
Status: Still at large (Currently a Top Ten Fugitive)
Time Listed: – days
Reward: US$1,000,000
Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez is wanted for orchestrating the murder of Juan Jesús Guerrero Chapa, which occurred on May 22, 2013, in Southlake, Texas. Villarreal-Hernandez is a leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, an off-shoot of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Several years before the 2013 murder Guerrero Chapa, Villarreal-Hernandez’s father was murdered by the Gulf Cartel, a rival drug organization to the Beltrán-Leyva brother, with whom they had an ongoing feud. Guerrero Chapa, who was a lawyer, was reportedly associated with the Gulf Cartel, and represented the Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.
It is believed Villarreal-Hernandez blamed Guerrero Chapa personally for the death of his father and sought revenge. He organized a hit on Guerrero Chapa, who by May 2013, was a U.S. informant cooperating with law enforcement, and had been relocated to Southlake, Texas.
Villarreal-Hernandez sent a group of assassins from Mexico to track and locate Guerrero, who was eventually found to be living in Southlake. On the evening of May 22, 2013, two hitmen working for Villarreal-Hernandez, known only as Clorox and Captain, tracked Guerrero Chapa and his wife in their vehicle, as they drove to Southlake Town Square.
Around 6:47pm, Guerrero climbed into the front passenger seat of his burgundy Range Rover while his wife placed bags into the back of the vehicle.
The two assassins, driving a white Toyota Sequoia, pulled up behind them, as the passenger exited the vehicle wearing a hoodie and a bandanna began firing multiple rounds from a 9mm handgun. Guerrero Chapa was shot in his side and back before slumping motionless against the front seats. The shooter returned to the car and the assassins escaped. Guerrero was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
His wife escaped the shooting unharmed. Three men who were involved to the assassination plot have since been arrested for their participation in the crime. The two assassins and Villarreal-Hernandez remain at large. According to witness testimony, the sister Guerrero Chapa exacted revenge against Villarreal-Hernandez by having one of his relatives beheaded, a video of which was sent to him showing the severed head.
Born in Mexico on January 16, 1978, Villarreal-Hernandez is a white (Hispanic) male of Mexican nationality, described as having black hair, brown eyes, 5’4″ in height and 165 pounds in weight. Added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list on October 13, 2020, there is a US$1,000,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, and Brown should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Villarreal-Hernandez, also known as “El Gato”, has ties to or may visit Monterrey, Mexico and Mexico City, Mexico. Due to his position within the leadership of the Beltran Leyva drug-trafficking organization, he may be present in the region of San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The field office investigating this fugitive is located in Dallas, Texas.
If anyone has information concerning any of the fugitives featured on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, they should immediately call 1-800-CALL-FBI or contact the nearest American Embassy or Consulate. Alternatively, you can submit an anonymous tip online.
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