A fugitive on the FBI‘s Top Ten Most Wanted list has been nabbed following a sting in Mexico.
Alejandro Rosales Castillo was arrested in Pachuca, Mexico, on Friday, according to FBI director Kash Patel.
He was wanted on charges for the 2016 murder of his former coworker in Charlotte, North Carolina.
‘This is the FIFTH Ten Most Wanted Fugutive [sic] captured under this FBI in one year, since the beginning of 2025 – more captures in one year than the entire previous four years combined,’ Patel wrote on X.
‘It’s a credit to great investigative work and great leadership in this administration,’ he added.
Patel thanked US President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice for ‘letting good cops be cops.’
Castillo is currently detained in Mexico City pending extradition to North Carolina.
Alejandro Rosales Castillo, a top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive since 2017, was arrested in Mexico on Friday
Castillo was initially added to the FBI’s most wanted list in October 2017. He was accused of murdering his coworker Truc Quan ‘Sandy’ Ly Le.
Her body was found about one year before that in a wooded area in Cabarrus County, and Castillo was charged with first-degree murder.
A federal arrest warrant was subsequently issued in the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, which accused Castillo of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
‘Justice will be done,’ Patel said.
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