(Center Square) – The Texas Department of Public Safety continues to find missing children and arrest the most wanted list of criminal unlawful immigrants.
As April is the “Child Abuse Prevention Month,” DPS troopers rescued more than 600 children through blockade for the Child Protection (IPC) program, DPS said. IPC officials are trained “to identify victims of exploitation, missing children, crimes against children, and high-risk threats to children.”
Through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, the DPS Troopers rescued more than 900 children who illegally took them to the United States in Texas alone under the Biden administration, Center Square reported.
So far, the DPS and other agencies have arrested 21 Texan 10 fugitives, sex offenders and more, including six sex offenders and seven criminal immigrants.
One of the most recent arrests was a fugitive at the 46-year-old Mexican National Carlos Ortiz, Texas’ 10 most wanted criminal unlawful immigrants list. He was arrested after DPS received the chip through a crime stopper.
Ortiz has been wanted by Tarrant County officials since October 2024 on charges of continuing sexual abuse of young children. He was arrested at his Haltom City apartment by several authorities, including DPS’s Criminal Investigation Unit, Haltom City Police and the U.S. Marshall North Texas Flow Task Force.
Since 2008, DPS records show Ortiz was arrested in Tarrant County for causing physical damage to his family and driving while drunk.
Another fugitive arrested on Texas’ 10 most wanted criminal and crime immigrant lists was 25-year-old Hondura National Anderson Ronaldo Reyes Giron. He was arrested in northern Austin, and was arrested by Travis County authorities since February for fatal conduct (firearm discharge) and in Williamson County since March for property theft.
He was first arrested under the Trump administration in January 2017 by US Customs Border Protection “for the removal of aliens.” By August 2024, he was arrested by an officer at the Austin Police Station for fatal conduct (firearm discharge), and was subsequently taken into custody from prison, according to DPS records.
Through the governor’s Department of Public Safety, taxpayers are assigned to Texas Crime Stoppers and provide cash rewards to those who provide information that leads to the arrest of one of Texas’ most wanted fugitives, sex offenders, or illegal criminal immigrants. To qualify for cash compensation, you must provide information to the authorities by calling the Crime Stopper Hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477) and submitting tips via the DPS website or Facebook page.
“All tips are anonymous and instead of using names, they’ll be provided with a tip number, regardless of how they’re being submitted,” DPS says.
Once a criminal is arrested and is off the list, others will be added.
Two recent additions include US citizens, 21-year-old Rondarius Evans of New Boston, the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive List and 42-year-old Rodolfo Martinez Jr., on the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list.
Evans has been appointed to Bowie County authorities on two counts of capital murder and drug charges since August last year. Martinez Jr. has been wanted in Harris County since November last year due to indecency with a child due to sexual contact.
Texas Crime Stoppers offer cash rewards for tips that lead to arrests.
