Source: Fox News · 2026-09-16 · Original article ↗

Kash Patel reveals FBI's capture of all 10 members of Most Wanted fugitive's list during hearing

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Grassley said nine. Patel said ten. The tenth was pulled out of Venezuela over the weekend.

Summary

  • Fox News reports FBI Director Kash Patel told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the bureau has now captured all 10 people on the FBI Most Wanted list during President Trump's second term, correcting Chairman Chuck Grassley's count of nine.
  • Patel said the tenth capture happened over the weekend in Venezuela: a fugitive on the run for years, now headed back to the United States. He said nobody in FBI history had swept the full top ten, and that this FBI captured more than two and a half times as many top-ten fugitives as the prior administration.
  • The FBI told Fox the tenth man is Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, the bureau's first cyber fugitive, accused of leading an ATM jackpotting conspiracy since at least 2024 that stole millions from banks for Tren de Aragua.
  • Patel also said the FBI created a top-ten fraudsters list and has captured six of those ten, and that the murder rate is down 20 points, with Baltimore at its lowest mid-year homicide mark on record and Washington on track for the lowest homicides since 1990.

Commentary

A dock dad still wipes salt off a badge reader and knows a Most Wanted poster is supposed to end in cuffs, not a cold case. He did not pay the levy so a Venezuelan ATM crew could keep jackpotting American banks.

Nine on the chairman's sheet. Ten after the weekend. Tren de Aragua money in a machine that still takes a working man's card. The honest household already paid the overdraft fee. The vinyl booth at the credit union still waits.

Look every working father who still uses a debit card after dark in the eye and answer this: if the tenth name had to be pulled out of Venezuela, who still owns the next machine on that corner?

Comments

If the tenth name was in Venezuela, who still owns the next ATM on that corner?
u/border_dad · 5h

10 of 10. Weekend grab. Tren de Aragua jackpotting. Keep that order.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I stood a line so a poster still meant a pair of cuffs. A cyber fugitive is still a fugitive.

u/rule_first · 4h

Patel. Grassley. Aguirre. 2.5 times the last admin. Print the four.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied bureaus still treat a wanted list as a hunt, not a branding exercise.

u/docket_rat · 3h

ATM jackpotting since 2024. Six of ten fraudsters. File the two lists.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still pull cash at 2 a.m. I want the next crew in a cell, not on a poster.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A gang ATM scheme is not a white-collar footnote. It is a warning the street already paid.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

A Venezuelan hide is a second border around an American bank.

u/press_clip · 30m

Fox printed 10 of 10, Aguirre, and the jackpotting. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Finish the list. Extradite the crew. A Most Wanted slot is not a retirement plan.

Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.

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