Texas Border Business
AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announces a successful year for Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Program – with DPS and partner agencies arresting 65 of Texas’ Most Wanted Fugitives, Sex Offenders and Criminal Illegal Immigrants in 2025.
“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’ 10 Most Wanted Program bring dozens of the state’s top criminals back into custody last year – 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.”
In addition to the 65 captures, a total of $41,000 in reward money was paid to 11 anonymous tipsters for information that led to the arrests. The 65 criminals captured in 2025 included 28 convicted sex offenders and 13 criminal illegal immigrants. 62 arrests occurred in Texas, one in Louisiana, one in Oklahoma and another in Mexico.
The 13 criminal illegal immigrants captured had nationalities from six different countries, including five from Mexico, three from Honduras, two from El Salvador, one from Iraq, one from Cuba and one from Cameroon.
For more information on the fugitives captured in 2025 as part of the Texas 10 Most Wanted program, visit the captured fugitive archive.
Funded by the Governor’s Public Safety Office, Crime Stoppers offers rewards to any person who provides information that leads to the arrest of one of Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, Sex Offenders or Criminal Illegal Immigrants.
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 — with photos — on the DPS website.
To be eligible for cash rewards, tipsters MUST provide information to authorities using one of the following three methods:
Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).
Submit a web tip through the DPS website by selecting the fugitive you have information about then clicking on the link under their picture.
Submit a Facebook tip by clicking the “SUBMIT A TIP” link (under the “About” section).
All tips are anonymous — regardless of how they are submitted — and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name.
*The partner agencies involved in the 65 captures in 2025 included the DPS Criminal Investigations Division, Texas Highway Patrol, Texas Rangers, DPS Aircraft Operations Division, DPS Homeland Security Division, Austin Police Department, Bexar County District Attorney’s Office, Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office (Louisiana), Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, Cherokee Nation Marshal Service – Special Applications Branch (SAB), City of Dallas Fire Marshal’s Office, Corsicana Police Department, Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, Dallas County Marshal’s Office, Dallas Police Department, DeSoto Police Department, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Dallas, Fort Worth Police Department, Garland Police Department, Grimes County Sheriff’s Office, Haltom City Police Department, Harris County Constable’s Office Pct 1, Harris County Constable’s Office Pct 4, Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Henderson County SWAT, Houston Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Hutchins Police Department, Irving Police Department, Jacksonville Police Department, Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office, Kaufman County SWAT, Lancaster Police Department, Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, Lorenzo Police Department, Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office, Mansfield Police Department, Mesquite Police Department, Mexican Law Enforcement, Milam County Sheriff’s Office, Montgomery County Constable’s Office Pct. 3, Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office, Palmview Police Department, Pasadena Police Department, Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, San Angelo Police Department, San Antonio Police Department, Stilwell Police Department (Oklahoma), TDCJ-Office of Inspector General (OIG), Texas Attorney General’s Office, Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Fugitive Task Force, U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force, U.S. Marshals Service Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force and the Waller County Sheriff’s Office.
