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Post by 912thamwuser on Oct 23, 2018 18:11:38 GMT -5
The only addition I actually like from this era is that of Rafael Caro-Quintero, which gave the FBI its first reward in the millions since Gerena who was last on the list in 2016. The 2 most recent additions to the Top Ten List, in particular Greg Carlson’s addition could mean a shift to CAC/Sex crimes fugitives on the Top Ten List. However as for the site in general, the Murders section, they have added a couple of good cases like Octaviano Juárez-Corro, Stanley Obas, Joel Carranza, Brad Bishop (after his removal from Top Ten). The child crimes section has been very inactive for the most part this year with only Gustavo Cruz being the only addition. The lack of additions to the CAC section leads me to believe that in order to get rid of some of their longtime section veterans like Bruce Sawhill, Rene Ramirez, Jorge Martinez, Jr, Rex Reichert, and others, they may start adding one of them to the FBI Top Ten. I don't know whether this can be called "begging the question", but it at least warrants the question: Why won't the 45th administration allow the FBI to give much of a (censored) about crimes against children?! |
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Oct 23, 2018 21:33:59 GMT -5
The only addition I actually like from this era is that of Rafael Caro-Quintero, which gave the FBI its first reward in the millions since Gerena who was last on the list in 2016. The 2 most recent additions to the Top Ten List, in particular Greg Carlson’s addition could mean a shift to CAC/Sex crimes fugitives on the Top Ten List. However as for the site in general, the Murders section, they have added a couple of good cases like Octaviano Juárez-Corro, Stanley Obas, Joel Carranza, Brad Bishop (after his removal from Top Ten). The child crimes section has been very inactive for the most part this year with only Gustavo Cruz being the only addition. The lack of additions to the CAC section leads me to believe that in order to get rid of some of their longtime section veterans like Bruce Sawhill, Rene Ramirez, Jorge Martinez, Jr, Rex Reichert, and others, they may start adding one of them to the FBI Top Ten. I don't know whether this can be called "begging the question", but it at least warrants the question: Why won't the 45th administration allow the FBI to give much of a (censored) about crimes against children?! That’s an easy one, they just want to continue the war on drugs in full throttle which explains why only 1 fugitive was added to the Crimes against children section. Also this is very concerning as I personally would like to see an equal focus to Murder, CAC, Additional Violent Crimes, CEI, and the other sections like it was before. Heck they could at least re-add Alicia Banuelos to the Murders section (ironically Bhadreshkumar Patel replaced her on the Murders section in April 2015), Edward Reisch to the CAC, or Lisbio Couto to the CEI, those names still have active warrants and are wanted for horrible crimes. |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Oct 23, 2018 21:38:17 GMT -5
Anyone else notice that Pedro Santamaria and Robert Brumfield's charges both included violations of the Hobbs Act. For those who aren't aware of the term, it involves robberies and extortions affecting interstate or foreign commerce.
If we could get some more Hobbs act fugitives over non-violent drug traffickers, I would be all for that.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Nov 7, 2018 14:50:53 GMT -5
This could also go in the "politics thread" but there's breaking news that Jeff Sessions just resigned as the U.S. Attorney General. Where that's good for us is that the trend of non-violent drug traffickers being featured as FBI fugitives may finally be over!  |
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Nov 7, 2018 15:09:45 GMT -5
This could also go in the "politics thread" but there's breaking news that Jeff Sessions just resigned as the U.S. Attorney General. Where that's good for us is that the trend of non-violent drug traffickers being featured as FBI fugitives may finally be over! Thank goodness, this bigot is no longer in a position of power. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 7, 2018 17:21:53 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I'm not as thrilled as you guys since as much as I couldn't stand Sessions, he was a buffer since he was recused from the Mueller investigation- but now we have a Democratic house in a few months anyway (yes Trump has the Senate, but it is the house that will be in charge of the investigative committees).
But taking Trump out of the equation, I'm hoping now that Sessions is gone, there won't be as much focus on non-violent drug traffickers as opposed to actual murderers and child molesters now.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Nov 7, 2018 20:50:26 GMT -5
Believe it or not, I'm not as thrilled as you guys since as much as I couldn't stand Sessions, he was a buffer since he was recused from the Mueller investigation- but now we have a Democratic house in a few months anyway (yes Trump has the Senate, but it is the house that will be in charge of the investigative committees). But taking Trump out of the equation, I'm hoping now that Sessions is gone, there won't be as much focus on non-violent drug traffickers as opposed to actual murderers and child molesters now. My big question is what’ll happen with FBI Top Ten Fugitive, Rafael Caro-Quintero and other non violent drug offenders sought by the FBI? |
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 7, 2018 21:38:22 GMT -5
Well Caro-Quintero is actually a violent alleged drug offender so I'm sure he'll stay on the list for the time being. The others were added already so they'll stay as well. Basically just hopefully in 2019 we see more a variety of fugitives.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Nov 13, 2018 13:41:51 GMT -5
Something I just noticed about the last two featured fugitive additions, being Raul Silva and Myron William Ernst. Both were first profiled as part of #WantedWednesday on Twitter by the field office they are wanted out of and then officially added to the website later in the week.
If the same thing happens tomorrow, then this might be the new style of publicity for FBI featured fugitive additions.
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 20, 2018 5:55:11 GMT -5
One thing I noticed when I went through the fugitives one by one on our site earlier in the year is a decent amount of drug-related fugitives from the mid-late 2000's/early 2010's were removed from the FBI's overall most wanted site. The violent crimes and murders/crimes against children fugitives (understandably) seem to stay on the site for a long time and pretty much remained the same with a few exceptions. I know I keep making excuses for the them, but I feel perhaps another reason for the large amount of drug-related fugitives compared to others this year is that drug trafficking/crimes/criminal enterprise section's cupboard was a bit bare compared to other sections.
Once again, hopefully we will see more of a variety of fugitives on 2018. It's not that I condone drugs (I do feel the war on drugs has been a failure however), but feel the main focus should be on murderers and child molesters.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Nov 20, 2018 10:16:52 GMT -5
He's not on the FBI featured fugitive site yet, but the article that led to today's thread on Andres Hernandez had a FBI fugitive poster for the man on the run for 11 years. If we can get more publicity for FBI fugitives like Andres into the end of this year and for 2019, then that will be a good thing.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Nov 21, 2018 15:28:56 GMT -5
One thing I noticed when I went through the fugitives one by one on our site earlier in the year is a decent amount of drug-related fugitives from the mid-late 2000's/early 2010's were removed from the FBI's overall most wanted site. The violent crimes and murders/crimes against children fugitives (understandably) seem to stay on the site for a long time and pretty much remained the same with a few exceptions. I know I keep making excuses for the them, but I feel perhaps another reason for the large amount of drug-related fugitives compared to others this year is that drug trafficking/crimes/criminal enterprise section's cupboard was a bit bare compared to other sections. Once again, hopefully we will see more of a variety of fugitives on 2018. It's not that I condone drugs (I do feel the war on drugs has been a failure however), but feel the main focus should be on murderers and child molesters. This is actually a good thing to note in regards to criminal enterprise fugitives being removed more quickly than other types of fugitives without an arrest. However I did actually check how many of each type of fugitive there is right now on the featured fugitive section (not counting the current Top Ten fugitives). Murder: 59 Cyber's Most Wanted: 59 Additional Violent Crimes: 31 White-Collar Crime: 30 Criminal Enterprise Investigations: 27 Crimes Against Children: 25 Parental Kidnappers: 23 Counterintelligence: 11 Bank Robbers: 5 Human Trafficking: 3 So yeah, the moment I saw that murder and cyber's most wanted were tied for featured fugitive coverage, I was like "seriously FBI". I understand cybersecurity is one of the most pressing concerns for Federal Law Enforcement in the 21st century but hopefully 2019 can see less of those fugitives and instead that wider variety we all want. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 21, 2018 15:43:59 GMT -5
Well one thing to keep in mind is often cyber cases involve more than one fugitive for the same case (which can also be said for criminal enterprise investigations at times as well).
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Nov 26, 2018 20:25:54 GMT -5
With Ranger Lacy’s capture, that’s 4 child crimes cases that have been resolved with only 1 having been added all year thus far.
The FBI did revive the manhunt for Rex Reichert, but there’s still 4 fugitives the fbi no longer bumps up on that section.
Gerard Zalewski- Captured In 2016
Kent Eaton- In the Netherlands unable to be extradited
William Willingham- Still At large, but there’s only one grainy photo.
Curtis Lee Brovold- Still At large.
Since the FBI already bumps up it’s fugitives regularly unlike the murders section, it may explain why murder fugitives have been added to the top ten in contrast with child crimes fugitives, but the only 2 fugitives that haven’t been rotated in years that are still at large, Willingham and Brovold, may pretty soon have their cases jump started possibly and even potentially with an addition to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List (I hope this is the same for Jerry Dunning).
This occurred to me about a month ago since each fugitive on the CAC gets bumped up to the top of the section and if they were trying to jump start a manhunt, it would be for a fugitive that hasn’t been bumped up in years. Both Willingham and Brovold, don’t have an age progressed image, so it’s anything is possible.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Jan 3, 2019 14:22:32 GMT -5
With the government shutdown ongoing, and the Department of Justice websites not being actively updated, who knows when we'll get our first featured fugitive case of 2019.
Also important is that the government shutdown ends soon so the FBI employees who manage the featured fugitive additions (and their fellow bureau workers in different departments) get paid.
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