CHICAGO The FBI on Friday announced the arrest of a fugitive suspected in the brutal 2012 murder of his new bride while driving home from their wedding reception in Chicago.

Authorities allege Arnoldo Jimenez, added to the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list in May 2019, was captured in Mexico without incident on Thursday, Jan. 30. Jimenez will remain in custody pending extradition proceedings.

Jimenez allegedly stabbed 26-year-old Estrella Carrera more than 18 times in his black, four-door Maserati less than 48 hours after getting married, in the early hours of May 12, 2012.

Carrera was later found in the bathtub of her condo in Burbank, still wearing the dress she wore to the reception.

“The FBI is extremely appreciative of the Burbank Police Department, our law enforcement partners in Mexico, and the public for their tremendous investigative efforts and collaboration in the capture of Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Arnoldo Jimenez,” Douglas S. DePodesta, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office, said. “The FBI will use all of its available resources to bring criminals to justice, no matter how much time has passed or where they may be in the world.”

Jimenez was the 522nd person placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, established in March of 1950. He faces first-degree murder.

In a May 2023 update, the FBI upped its reward for information leading to an arrest and/or conviction of Jimenez to $250,000, increased from $100,000. FBI Chicago, FBI San Antonio, the FBI’s Legal Attaché in Mexico City, and the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois cooperated to locate Jimenez.