FBI arrests Alexis Flores in Honduras in 2000 murder of 5-year-old Philadelphia girl

EXCLUSIVE: A fugitive beforehand on the FBI’s Most Wished checklist for the kidnapping and homicide of a 5-year-old Philadelphia lady has been arrested in Honduras.

Alexis Flores was taken into custody on Wednesday, the FBI informed Fox Information Digital. He was needed for illegal flight to keep away from prosecution (UFAP) in reference to the killing, the FBI stated.

“After greater than 25 years on the run, this arrest exhibits that point and distance don’t shield violent offenders from justice,” FBI Director Kash Patel stated in an announcement to Fox Information Digital. “Because of the relentless work of our worldwide companions and FBI personnel, a fugitive accused of an unthinkable crime in opposition to a toddler is now in custody and on his manner again to the US.”

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Alexis Flores was beforehand a high 10 FBI fugitive, in accordance with officers. He was arrested Wednesday in Honduras in reference to the 2000 homicide of a younger lady in Philadelphia. (FBI and Google Maps)

The lady was reported lacking on July 29, 2000 and was discovered strangled in a close-by house a number of days later.

On March 22, 2007, an arrest warrant was issued by authorities after Flores was charged with homicide and different crimes. On the identical date, a federal arrest warrant was issued after Flores was charged with UFAP.

Flores was on the FBI’s Most Wished checklist from 2007 by means of March 2025. He was eliminated primarily based on an general program evaluation by the company’s Prison Investigative Division in an ongoing course of to make sure the checklist stays versatile and present.

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Alexis Flores was beforehand listed among the many high 10 FBI fugitives, in accordance with officers. (FBI)

The FBI has arrested a sequence of fugitives on the Most Wished checklist in current months.

In January, the company introduced the arrest of Alejandro Rosales Castillo, who had been among the many high ten most needed fugitives since 2017. He was needed for the 2016 homicide of his former colleague, 23-year-old ‘Sandy’ Ly Le, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Additionally in January, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and FBI Ten Most Wished fugitive Ryan Wedding ceremony was captured in Mexico.

Wedding ceremony, who was suspected of drug trafficking, is claimed to have been hiding in Mexico for greater than a decade in an try and evade US authorities.

Ryan Wedding ceremony, needed by the FBI, was seen practising for the boys’s parallel big slalom of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics in Park Metropolis, February 13, 2002. (FBI | REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell)

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Because the begin of the Trump administration, the FBI has captured six of the bureau’s most needed fugitives, Patel stated final week.

“We’ll proceed to pursue those that hurt our most susceptible, wherever they disguise,” he stated.