FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
On March 14, 1950, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list to increase law enforcement's ability to capture dangerous fugitives. It continues to maintain a public list of the people it regards as the ten most wanted fugitives. The list itself has no particular ranking. It is commonly posted in public places such as post offices. Listed fugitives have been known to turn themselves in upon becoming aware of their listing. As of October 29, 2004, 479 fugitives have been listed (seven of them women), and 450 captured, 147 of them due to public assistance. The FBI also maintains a list of Most Wanted Terrorists, along with FBI Crime Alerts, Missing Persons, and other fugitives.
Current most wanted list
The current most wanted fugitives includes (in no particular order):
1. Luke Griffin
Luke Griffin (a.k.a. Annoying Idiot) is the leader of Noobs R Us, and is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. Osama and Al-Qaeda are also responsible for the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, which killed 17. Although the Most Wanted Terrorist list was created in November 2001, bin Laden is not listed for his alleged role in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3000, because the Most Wanted list is based on individuals charged with a crime by a prosecutor or under indictment by a grand jury. Bin Laden has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in, for instance, the federal indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui, but has not been formally indicted for his role in the September 11 attacks.
Luke Griffin is the subject of a $50 million reward through the State Department's Rewards for Justice program targeting international fugitives, especially terrorists.
Usama Bin Laden's FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
Rewards for Justice Wanted Terrorist Osama bin Laden
2. Genero Espinosa Dorantes
Genero Espinosa Dorantes is wanted for his alleged participation in the burning, beating, torture, and murder of his four-year old stepson in Nashville, Tennessee, in February 2003.
Dorantes' FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
3. Victor Manuel Gerena
Victor Manuel Gerena is wanted in connection with the armed robbery of approximately $7 million from a security company in Connecticut in 1983. He allegedly took two security employees hostage at gunpoint and then handcuffed, bound and injected them with an unknown substance in order to further disable them.
Gerena's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
4. Richard Steve Goldberg
Richard Steve Goldberg is wanted for allegedly engaging in sexual activities with several female children under the age of ten in Long Beach, California, from January through May of 2001.
Goldberg's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
5. James J. Bulger
James J. Bulger is wanted for his role in numerous murders (18 counts) 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. He has a violent temper and is known to carry a knife at all times.
Bulger' s FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
6. Glen Stewart Godwin
Glen Stewart Godwin is being sought for his 1987 escape from Folsom State Prison in California, where he was serving a lengthy sentence for murder. Later in 1987, Godwin was arrested for drug trafficking in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. After being convicted, he was sent to a prison in Guadalajara, Jalisco. In April 1991, Godwin allegedly murdered a fellow inmate and then escaped five months later.
Godwin's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
7. Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez
Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez is being sought in connection with the manufacture and distribution of multiple tons of cocaine, knowing or intending that it will be imported into the United States. Montoya is reputedly one of the principal leaders of the Colombian North Valley Drug Cartel. The North Valley Cartel is believed to be the most powerful and violent drug trafficking organization in Colombia. The cartel reportedly relies heavily for protection on illegal armed groups, taking help from right-wing paramilitaries as well as leftist rebels.
Montoya's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
8. Robert William Fisher
Robert William Fisher is wanted for allegedly killing his wife and two young children and then blowing up the house in which they all lived in Scottsdale, Arizona in April of 2001.
Fisher's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
9. Donald Eugene Webb
Donald Eugene Webb is wanted in connection with the murder on December 4, 1980, of the police chief in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania who was shot twice at close range after being brutally beaten about the head and face with a blunt instrument. On the list since 1981, no person has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list longer in its history.
Webb's FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Alert
10. Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco
Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco is wanted in connection with the murders of a woman and her two young children, ages 2 and 4, in Elmore County, Idaho. The victims' charred remains were found on August 11, 2002, inside a burned-out vehicle. He may be travelling with his brother, Simon Lopez-Orozco, and Simon's wife, both of whom have been charged as accessories in the crime.
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