Texas – The Texas Department of Public Safety announced the arrest of three men on the state’s 10 most wanted list.
Fugitives Christopher Joshua Garay, Johnny Leon Wilson, and Michael Wayne Petterson, who was on Texas’ list of 10 most wanted sex offenders, were arrested on November 29 and December, respectively. He was arrested by authorities on November 27th. Crime Stoppers’ reward is for information leading to the arrest of Gayley and Wilson.
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Garay, 35, was captured in San Antonio. In 2011, he was convicted of five counts of aggravated robbery and sentenced to 18 years on each count.
Garay was paroled in 2018, but became a fugitive in January 2024 after a warrant was issued in Bexar County for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole also issued a parole violation warrant in February 2024.
Wilson, 54, was arrested in Grand Prairie. In 2019, Houston police arrested Wilson on suspicion of murder and he was released on bail wearing an ankle monitor, which was later removed and damaged.
He had been wanted since February 2023, when the Harris County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for his arrest on suspicion of murder.
Petterson, 55, a high-risk sex offender, was taken into custody in Dayton. He was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a 17-year-old woman in 1991 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was also convicted of harassment in 2003, failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements in 2008, and assault on a family member or household member by impeding breathing or circulation in 2014, which resulted in a five-year suspended sentence. Given.
He had been wanted since November 2023, when the San Augustine County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements.
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To be eligible for a cash reward, tipsters must provide information to authorities using one of three methods:
Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).To submit a web tip through the DPS website, select the fugitive you have information about and click the link below their photo.To submit a Facebook tip, click the (Submit a Tip) link (under the About section).
All tips, regardless of how they are submitted, are anonymous and tipsters are provided with a tip number rather than a name. DPS investigators work with local law enforcement agencies to select fugitives as Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, Sex Offenders, and Illegal Criminals. Immigration list. The current list with photos is available on the DPS website.
Do not try to arrest these fugitives. They are considered armed and dangerous.
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