LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – One of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was arrested in Lake County on Saturday morning, according to a news release.
The FBI said that Donald Eugene Fields, II was taken into custody after a routine traffic stop by Lady Lake police.
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According to the release, Fields was pulled over around 9:15 a.m. at U.S. Highway 27/441 at Rolling Acres Road for the license plate on the vehicle he was driving not being registered to that vehicle.
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Fields was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in May 2023, the agency said.
According to the release, Fields, 60, was federally indicted in St. Louis on Dec. 7, 2023, on one count of child sex trafficking. The indictment accuses Fields 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 that Fields 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 vacated his home and failed to show up for a March 3, 2022, hearing, court records show.
“Thanks to proactive policing by the Lady Lake Police Department, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been captured,” said FBI St. Louis Special Agent in Charge Ashley Johnson.
Fields was the 531st fugitive added to the list, officials said. Of the total, 495 fugitives have now been apprehended or located—163 of them as a result of citizen cooperation.
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