Coach Kash Patel said that since President Trump took office, the FBI has had a quick success catching fugitives.
Patel announced Tuesday that the FBI has arrested three fugitives from the agency's 10 most wanted list since January 20th.
“This is the FBI I was proud to work for, and I'm really excited to have already arrested some of the FBI's most wanted fugitives,” Nicole Parker, a former FBI agent and contributor to Fox News, told Fox News Digital. “I specifically remember when President Trump took over in his first administration in 2017, I was a violent crime agent in Miami and said that his number one priority was to focus on violent criminals.”
Parker believes Trump's “focus” in his second term is “the Americans care most.” It will make America safe, focus on violent crime, and bring the most violent criminals on the streets.”
Patel says the FBI has captured the third wanted fugitive since Trump took office: “Let's make good cops a good cops.”
FBI Director Kash Patel will speak at the Soldier Ceremony held in Washington on February 21, 2025. (Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Patel on Tuesday said the FBI, Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy “takes the third fugitive on the 10 most wanted list since January 20, 2025.”
“This is what happens when you make a good cop a good cop.”
“It's not an accident,” Patel wrote to X:
Nicole Parker, a former FBI special agent and contributor to Fox News, said he worked with the choice of Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Fox News Digital)
Parker said the new leadership would “renew the FBI, in my opinion, the primary, law enforcement agency.”
The FBI told Fox News Digital that the three fugitives filmed since January are:
Francisco Javier Roman Bardales – captured 3/18/25
Roman Baderless, 47, is allegedly filed MS-13 Key Senior Leader He was accused of conspiracy to provide material support and resources to assault conspiracy, terrorist, narcoterrorist conspiracy, and alien smuggling conspiracy to provide and conceal.
The FBI adds Meza-Flores Transnational Criminal Organization leaders to the list of 10 most wanted fugitives
Francisco Javier Roman Baderes has been handed over to the United States. (Mexican law enforcement)
Authorities detained Roma Badales in Mexico on Monday and later handed it over to the United States for legal proceedings.
“The FBI Ten Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Roman-Bardales have been handed over to the US to be held accountable for the extreme, fallen violence and fear of the MS-13, which allegedly led to the streets of the US and North America. “The FBI is working with law enforcement partners to eradicate all violent transnational criminal organizations, both in MS-13 and wherever they operate when protecting our country.”
Arnoldo Jimenez – Captured 1/30/25
Mexico's second top 10 fugitives were arrested on January 30th.
Arnold Zimenez is accused of murdering his wife, who was found dead in the tub in their apartment, within 48 hours of getting married in Burbank, Illinois in 2012.
Arnold Zimenez is accused of murdering his wife within 48 hours of marriage in Burbank, Illinois. (FBI)
“The FBI is extremely grateful to the public for their incredible investigative efforts and cooperation in capturing Burbank Police Department, Mexican law enforcement partners, and the ten most wanted fugitives, Arnold Zimenez,” said Douglas S. DePodesta, a special agent responsible for the FBI's Chicago Field Office, in a statement. “The FBI uses all available resources to bring criminals to trial, regardless of how much time has passed or where in the world they are.”
Donald Eugene Fields II – Captured 1/25/25
The first FBI 10 most wanted fugitive arrest based on the Trump administration took place in Florida in January for Lady Lake Police Sergeant. Michelle Billbree 60-year-old Donald Eugene Fields II arrested Regular traffic stops on January 25th.
Fields is charged with child sex trafficking and child rape fees in federal and state courts. He has been accused of recruiting, seducing, offering, loving and trying to recruit, from around January 2013 to June 2017.
MS-13 Leader of the FBI is said to be handed over to us
Donald Eugene Fields II, 60, is facing federal charges of state accusations of child sex trafficking and child rape, authorities said. (FBI)
“Thanks to active police force by the Lady Lake Police Department, one of the 10 most wanted fugitives has been captured,” Ashley Johnson's FBI St. Louis Special Agent said in a statement.
“[I]T shows that Kash Patel is serious…”
Earlier this month, Atlanta police identified Justin Smith, who is not on the top 10 list but on the FBI's most wanted list, and took him into custody.
Smith is said to have shot her pregnant girlfriend multiple times in Philadelphia in 2021, killing her and her unborn baby.
Earlier this month, Atlanta police identified and detained Justin Smith, the FBI's most wanted fugitive who was allegedly shot a pregnant girlfriend multiple times in Philadelphia in 2021, killing her and her unborn child. (FBI)
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“This is what we need. We need to hold these individuals accountable,” Parker said. “It's absolutely phenomenal to get some of them off the streets within two months. I'm excited to see what's in place for the FBI over the next three and a half years. Again, we're already two months away. Let's have them do the job.”
Elizabeth Prickett of Fox News contributed to this report.
