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The FBI has had prompt success capturing fugitives since President Trump took office, according to Director Kash Patel.
Patel announced on Tuesday that the FBI has apprehended three fugitives from the agency’s 10 Most Wanted list since Jan. 20.
“This is the FBI that I was proud to work for, and I’m really excited to see that they have already arrested several of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives,” former FBI agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker told Fox News Digital. “When President Trump took over in 2017 in his first administration, I was a violent crime agent in Miami, and I specifically remember that he said that his top priority was to focus on violent criminals.”
Parker believes that in his second term, Trump’s “focus” is what “Americans care about most: making America safe, focusing on violent crime and taking the most violent criminals off the street.”
Donald Eugene Fields II, 60, is facing federal charges of child sex trafficking and state charges of child rape, authorities said. (FBI)
“Thanks to proactive policing by the Lady Lake Police Department, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been captured,” said FBI St. Louis Special Agent in Charge Ashley Johnson said in a statement.
“[I]t shows me that Kash Patel is serious…”
Earlier this month, Atlanta police identified and detained Justin Smith, who is not on the Top 10 list but is on the FBI’s general Most Wanted list.
Smith allegedly shot his pregnant girlfriend in the head multiple times in Philadelphia in 2021, killing her and her unborn child.
Earlier this month, Atlanta police identified and detained FBI Most Wanted fugitive Justin Smith, who allegedly shot his pregnant girlfriend in the head multiple times in Philadelphia in 2021, killing her and her unborn child. (FBI)
“This is what we need. We need to hold these individuals accountable,” Parker said. “To take several of them off of the streets within two months is absolutely phenomenal. I am so excited to see what is in store for the FBI over the next three and a half years. Again, we’re only two months into it, and for this to have already occurred, it shows me that Kash Patel is serious when he says, ‘Let good cops be good cops.’ Let’s let them just do their jobs.”
Fox News’ Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.
