Overview
- The DOJ says Ramirez was arrested in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on March 10 at 11:13 a.m. PT, about 73 minutes after he was added as the 538th fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, eclipsing a 1969 record.
- He was deported to the United States and returned to Washington on Wednesday night, with an arraignment expected roughly two weeks after booking in King County.
- Prosecutors in King County charged him in May 2023 with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and first-degree attempted murder in a Federal Way bar shooting that killed Jessyca Hohn and Katie Duhnke and injured a third person.
- The FBI had recently raised the reward for information to up to $1 million, the new standard for the program, and officials credited timely public tips for locating him.
- FBI Seattle cited cooperation with the FBI Legal Attaché in Mexico City and Mexican authorities including SSPC, SEDENA, and INM, along with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington.