Overview
- Flores was taken into custody in Honduras on Wednesday, according to the FBI, which now lists him as captured on its wanted poster.
- The FBI’s Transnational Anti-Gang Task Force carried out the operation with international partners, as announced by Director Kash Patel.
- Flores faces 2007 warrants in Pennsylvania and federal court charging murder, kidnapping, indecent assault, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
- Investigators tied him to the killing of 5-year-old Iriana DeJesus through a DNA match to a sample collected after a 2004 forgery arrest in Phoenix; he was deported to Honduras in 2005.
- He remained on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list from 2007 until his removal in March 2025 following a program review.