FBI director calls recent year "historic," announces arrests of several Top Ten fugitives

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the agency had its most "prolific year in crime reduction in United States history" and announced that several fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list are now in custody.

The director said a Top Ten suspect was arrested in Central Florida and named Cindy Singh as a fugitive who had been on the run for multiple years out of Texas. He also announced the capture of Ryan Wedding and said Arnoldo Jimenez had been suspected of murdering his wife in 2012. "When you think about it, 10 years, 10 years have passed and we found him," the director said.

The director described the round of arrests as "a historic achievement," saying the agency had captured eight of the Ten Most Wanted fugitives in the last year and that one of the Ten Most Wanted had been arrested in Mexico. He emphasized the role of law enforcement in the results: "This is what happens when you let good cops be cops," he said, and asked community members to thank officers they encounter.

The remarks combined tallies of recent captures with named cases and long-running investigations. The director cited operations in multiple locations, including Central Florida and Mexico, and linked the captures to long-standing cases such as the suspected 2012 murder in Federal Way. The briefing did not provide a full list of defendants, case file numbers, or dates of arrest beyond the named examples.

The director's statements presented the FBI's recent enforcement activity as a period of notable success; the agency did not outline next steps for prosecution or case transfer in the remarks covered in the transcript.