Three of Texas’ Most Wanted Captured Across the State

Authorities arrested Eduardo Quinones Fuentes in Hidalgo, Kenneth Wayne Patterson in Plano and Leroy Lewis Jr. in Houston. A Texas Crime Stoppers reward will be paid for information that led to Patterson's arrest.

Fuentes, 32, was taken into custody June 22 at the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge after returning from Mexico. His arrest followed a multi-agency investigation involving U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Fugitive Task Force and DPS Criminal Investigations Division special agents.

Fuentes had been wanted since October 2025 on warrants for a parole violation and obstruction, along with a November 2025 Hidalgo County warrant for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. Since 2016, he has been convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, sexual assault, assault, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and human smuggling.

Patterson, 64, was arrested June 24 at an apartment complex in Plano after investigators received a tip. DPS special agents, Plano police officers and members of the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force carried out the arrest.

Patterson had been wanted since December 2025 on a Dallas County warrant for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. He was convicted in 1989 of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl and sentenced to eight years in prison. DPS said he has a history of failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements.

Lewis, 53, was arrested June 22 at a residence in south Houston. The arrest involved DPS special agents assigned to the Texas Anti-Gang Center, the Harris County Sheriff's Office Violent Criminal Apprehension Team, the Houston Police Department Southeast Crime Suppression Team and the Office of the Attorney General's Fugitive Apprehension Unit.

Lewis had been wanted since March on a Harris County warrant for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. He was previously convicted of murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping. Authorities said the kidnapping involved a 20-year-old woman whom Lewis intended to sexually abuse. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison and was paroled in 2012, when he became subject to sex offender registration requirements.

According to DPS, law enforcement agencies have arrested 44 Texas 10 Most Wanted fugitives, sex offenders and criminal illegal immigrants so far in 2026, including 32 sex offenders and eight gang members. Texas Crime Stoppers has paid $61,500 in rewards for tips that led to those arrests.