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Kash Patel Clear About What was no Accident, Why More is Coming

March 20, 2025
by The Times Of America

Kash Patel Says FBI Arresting Most Wanted Fugitives ‘was not an Accident,’ Suggests More is Coming

Director Kash Patel says the Federal Bureau of Investigation has apprehended three fugitives from its 10 Most Wanted list since President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

“That’s not an accident,” Patel wrote on social media platform X. “When you let good cops be good cops, this is what happens. This administration is giving the new FBI and AG Bondi the resources to get the job done — and we won’t stop.”

The string of high-profile captures began in January when Lady Lake Police Sgt. Michelle Bilbrey arrested 60-year-old Donald Eugene Fields II during a routine traffic stop in Florida on Jan. 25. 

Fields faces child sex trafficking and child rape charges in both federal and state court. He is accused of attempting to recruit minors into commercial sex acts from January 2013 until June 2017.

“Thanks to proactive policing by the Lady Lake Police Department, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been captured,” FBI St. Louis Special Agent in Charge Ashley Johnson said, according to a report by Fox News.

The outlet further noted that the second capture occurred on January 30 when Arnoldo Jimenez was arrested in Mexico. Jimenez is accused of murdering his wife in 2012, less than 48 hours after their wedding in Burbank, Illinois. Authorities found her body in the bathtub of their apartment. He also faces charges of fleeing to avoid prosecution.

Douglas S. DePodesta, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office, praised the collaborative effort: “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.”

TTOA reported that most recently, Roman-Bardales, an alleged MS-13 senior leader, was taken into custody in Mexico on Monday before being extradited to the United States. The 47-year-old faces charges including racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, narco-terrorism conspiracy and alien smuggling conspiracy.

Fox reported that FBI Acting Assistant Director in Charge for the New York Field Office Leslie Backschies emphasized the significance of the arrest: “Roman-Bardales has been extradited to the United States to be held accountable for the extreme and depraved violence and terror his leadership of MS-13 allegedly brought to the streets of the United States and across North America.”

Atlanta police also recently identified and detained Justin Smith, who appears on the FBI’s general Most Wanted list but not the Top 10. Smith allegedly shot his pregnant girlfriend multiple times in the head in Philadelphia in 2021, killing both her and her unborn child.

Former FBI agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker expressed enthusiasm about the agency’s recent success. “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,” Parker told Fox News Digital.

Parker connected the recent captures to Trump’s law enforcement priorities, noting, “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.”

She 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.”

Parker also expressed optimism about the FBI’s trajectory under new leadership. “This is what we need. We need to hold these individuals accountable,” she 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.”

She attributes the success to Director Patel’s leadership approach: “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.”

Parker predicted the new leadership will “make the FBI, in my opinion, the number one, premier law enforcement agency again.”

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