FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2010s
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.
FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 2010s
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 |
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. 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. |
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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. Was removed from the list in May 2016 as FBI officials believed that publicity would not assist with his capture. |
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Osama bin Laden | #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 off the coast of Yemen. Killed during Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. |
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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. |
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Robert William Fisher | #475 | 2002 | Still at large. Wanted for murder of his wife and their two children in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001. |
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Alexis Flores | #487 | 2007 | Still at large. Wanted for kidnapping and killing a five-year-old girl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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Jason Derek Brown | #489 | 2007 | Still at large. Allegedly killed an armored car guard in Phoenix, Arizona during a bank robbery. |
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Joe Luis Saenz | #492 | 2009 | Captured. Wanted for multiple murders, including three in 1998 and one in 2008. Arrested on November 22, 2012, in Guadalajara, Mexico. |
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Eduardo Ravelo | #493 | 2009 | Captured. Leader of the Barrio Azteca gang in Mexico; wanted for several crimes involving murder and drugs. Captured in Mexico, the FBI announced on June 26, 2018. |
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Semion Mogilevich | #494 | 2009 | Still at large but removed from the list. Alleged organized crime leader; wanted for running a financial scam in Pennsylvania. He was removed from the list on December 17, 2015 because he lives freely and openly in Russia, which does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. |
FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 2010s
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 :2010–2019
End of the decade
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 |
FBI directors in the 2010s
- Robert Mueller
- James Comey
- Andrew McCabe
- Christopher A. Wray