{"id":233328,"date":"2026-04-15T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:51:10","slug":"ten-most-wanted-fugitive-arrested-in-florida-hours-after-fbi-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233328\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ten Most Wanted’ fugitive arrested in Florida hours after FBI listing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n

FIRST ON FOX: A woman who was on the run for nearly six years after allegedly shooting two people was arrested in Florida<\/a> on Wednesday \u2014 just hours after the FBI added her to its “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list, offering a $1 million reward.<\/p>\n

KaShawn Nicola Roper, 50, was wanted for allegedly firing multiple shots at a car in Missouri in August 2020, striking two women, one fatally<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“KaShawn Roper was on the run for nearly six years,” FBI Director Kash Patel<\/a> told Fox News Digital. “Hours after we added her to the Ten Most Wanted list, tips poured in and our partners had her in custody.”<\/p>\n

\"KaShawn <\/p>\n

KaShawn Nicola Roper was captured one day after being added to the FBI’s most wanted list. (FBI)<\/p>\n

FBI\u2019S ICONIC ‘MOST WANTED’ LIST ENTERS NEW ERA WITH UNPRECEDENTED ADDITION<\/a><\/p>\n

The FBI said after adding Roper to the list on Tuesday, the agency received multiple NTOC tips out of Florida Wednesday morning as to her whereabouts, where tipsters reported a person resembling Roper\u2019s description quickly packing a vehicle with belongings.<\/p>\n

Officials said partners rapidly coordinated<\/a>, and using the description of the vehicle in question, conducted a traffic stop and took her into custody.<\/p>\n

\"KaShawn <\/p>\n

KaShawn Nicola Roper was arrested after allegedly dodging authorities on murder charges for more than half a decade. (FBI)<\/p>\n

Roper was subsequently booked into the Alachua County jail and is charged with second degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon in Missouri<\/a>, along with a federal charge for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.<\/p>\n

Patel added eight of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives<\/a> have been captured in just over a year, more than double the previous four years combined.<\/p>\n

\"FILE <\/p>\n

Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), speaks during a news conference at the scene of a shooting. Two National Guardsmen were shot in downtown Washington near the White House, and a suspect is in custody, officials said Wednesday. The news conference took place in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Aaron Schwartz\/Bloomberg)<\/p>\n

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“Outstanding work by FBI Kansas City, FBI Jacksonville, and our state and local partners in Florida and Missouri,” Patel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital journalist who covers breaking news, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.<\/p>\n

She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A woman who was on the run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7106,2362,28,30,29,1109,11409,7107,628],"class_list":["post-233328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-world","tag-fbi","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-homicide","tag-kash-patel","tag-police-and-law-enforcement","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}