St. Louis – Special Agent in Charge Ashley Johnson has announced the arrest of Donald Eugene Fields II. He was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in May 2023. He is facing child sex trafficking and child rape charges in federal and state court, respectively.
On Saturday morning, the Lady Lake Police Department arrested Fields II after a routine traffic stop. The license plate was not registered to the vehicle he was driving. The arrest happened at 9:15 AM (ET) at U.S. Hwy 27/441 at Rolling Acres Road. Lady Lake is northwest of Orlando, Fla. The FBI praised the department's work, whose police chief is an FBI National Academy graduate.
Special Agent in Charge Johnson said, “Thanks to proactive policing by the Lady Lake Police Department, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been captured.”
Fields II will be scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court in Florida.
Fields II is also facing charges including statutory rape, statutory sodomy, child molestation and witness tampering in Franklin County Circuit Court in Missouri. A warrant for his arrest was issued by that court after Fields II vacated his home and failed to show up for a March 3, 2022, hearing, court records show.
Fields II is the fifth fugitive investigated by the FBI St. Louis Field Office to be named as an FBI Top Ten Fugitive. More than 60 years ago, Thomas Edward Galloway was placed on the list in June 1964. The FBI arrested Galloway in July 1964 at a golf course in Danville, Va., after a citizen recognized him from a newspaper article.
The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was established in March of 1950. Fields II was the 531st fugitive added to the List. Of the total, 495 fugitives have now been apprehended or located, 163 of them due to citizen cooperation.
