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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas DPS has released the results of the 2025 operations of their Most Wanted program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their partnership with law enforcement agencies across the state resulted in the capture of 65 fugitives over the year, they announced Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Texas’ Most Wanted 2025 <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The 65 fugitives captured included 28 convicted sex offenders and 13 criminal undocumented immigrants, the release from DPS said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sixty-two of the arrests were made in Texas, one in Louisiana, one in Oklahoma and one in Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A total of $41,000 in reward money was paid to 11 anonymous tipsters in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more information on the fugitives captured in 2025 as part of the Texas 10 Most Wanted program, visit the\u00a0captured fugitive archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n FOX Local reporting on Most Wanted arrests: <\/p>\n North Texas murder suspect, fugitive captured after month-long search<\/a><\/p>\n Benjamin Song, ‘Top 10’ suspect in Alvarado ICE attack, captured in Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n Texas most wanted fugitive arrested in Jacksonville officer shooting case<\/a><\/p>\n 2 of Texas’ most wanted sex offenders arrested<\/a><\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “Texas is a law-and-order state, and the Texas Department of Public Safety is committed to working with our law enforcement partners and the public to keep it that way,” said Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Chief Floyd Goodwin. “That commitment is what helped Texas\u2019 10 Most Wanted Program bring dozens of the state\u2019s top criminals back into custody last year \u2013 and DPS looks forward to partnering with the public and law enforcement at the local, state, federal and international level to keep that momentum going in 2026.”\u00a0<\/p>\n How does the Most Wanted program work? <\/p>\n DPS investigators work with local law enforcement agencies to select fugitives for the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, Sex Offenders and Criminal Illegal Immigrants lists who pose the most significant threat to public safety in the state. You can find the current lists \u2014 with photos \u2014 on the\u00a0DPS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n To be eligible for cash rewards, tipsters\u00a0MUST\u00a0provide information to authorities using one of the following three methods:<\/p>\n Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).Submit a web tip through the\u00a0DPS website<\/a>\u00a0by selecting the fugitive you have information about then clicking on the link under their picture.Submit a\u00a0Facebook tip<\/a>\u00a0by clicking the “SUBMIT A TIP” link (under the “About” section). <\/p>\n All tips are anonymous \u2014 regardless of how they are submitted\u00a0\u2014 and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article came from Texas DPS.<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas – Texas DPS has released the results of the 2025 operations of their Most Wanted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-150093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}