FBI's Most Wanted Arrested

 

A man listed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for child sex crimes has been arrested, according to the agency.

Donald Eugene Fields II was arrested on the morning of Jan. 25 by the Lady Lake, Florida, Police Department, said a Jan. 25 statement from the FBI.

Lady Lake is northwest of Orlando. Fields, 60, was added to the FBI’s most-wanted list in May 2023. He faces child sex trafficking charges in a federal court and child rape charges in a state court.

The arrest occurred during a routine traffic stop when officers found that the license plate was not registered to the vehicle that Fields was driving. The incident happened on U.S. Highway 27/441 at Rolling Acres Road at 9:15 a.m. ET.

“Fields II will be scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court in Florida,” the agency said. FBI St. Louis Special Agent in Charge Ashley Johnson praised the Lady Lake department’s “proactive policing” for nabbing the fugitive.

Fields was indicted in St. Louis on Dec. 7, 2023, on one count of child sex trafficking, according to the FBI.

“The indictment accuses Fields II of knowingly attempting to recruit, entice, provide, patronize, and solicit a minor into engaging in a commercial sex act from about January 2013 until June 2017,” the FBI said.

“Fields II is also facing charges including statutory rape, statutory sodomy, child molestation, and witness tampering in Franklin County Circuit Court in Missouri. A warrant for his arrest was issued by that court after Fields II vacated his home and failed to show up for a March 3, 2022, hearing.”