Major update in wild chase to find FBI's most wanted child sex pest
A Missouri man on the FBI's most wanted list has finally been arrested after two years on the run.
Donald Eugene Fields II, 60, was nabbed during a routine traffic stop on Saturday around 9.15am on U.S. Highway 27/441 at Rolling Acres Road in Lady Lake, Florida - about an hour outside of Orlando, according to the FBI St. Louis office.
The Lady Lake Police Department spotted the vehicle he was driving and soon realized the license plate was not registered, leading officers to pull him over.
He was federally indicted in St. Louis in 2023 after the Easter District of Missouri issued a federal arrest warrant for the former fugitive. Fields was added to the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list in May 2023.
He faces one count of child sex trafficking, but according to court records, he fled his home and failed to show up to court before a warrant was issued for his arrest.
The indictment accused Fields 'of knowingly attempting to recruit, entice, provide, patronize, and solicit a minor into engaging in a commercial sex act from about January 2013 until June 2017,' the agency said.
He also faces charges including statutory sodomy, statutory rape, child molestation, and witness tampering in Missouri's Franklin County Circuit Court.
It is unclear where exactly he was hiding out all these years. DailyMail.com contacted the FBI for comment.
![Donald Eugene Fields II, 60, was nabbed during a routine traffic stop on Saturday in Lady Lake, Florida. He faces one count of child sex trafficking, statutory sodomy, statutory rape, child molestation, and witness tampering](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/26/21/94538589-14327569-image-m-64_1737925234540.jpg)
Donald Eugene Fields II, 60, was nabbed during a routine traffic stop on Saturday in Lady Lake, Florida. He faces one count of child sex trafficking, statutory sodomy, statutory rape, child molestation, and witness tampering
![The Lady Lake Police Department spotted the vehicle he was driving and soon realized the license plate was not registered, leading officers to pull him over. (Pictured: Intersection he was stopped on)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/26/21/94538683-14327569-image-a-65_1737926156296.jpg)
The Lady Lake Police Department spotted the vehicle he was driving and soon realized the license plate was not registered, leading officers to pull him over. (Pictured: Intersection he was stopped on)
The agency praised the local police department for their help in tracking down Fields.
'Thanks to proactive policing by the Lady Lake Police Department, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been captured,' Special Agent in Charge Ashley Johnson said.
The agency also noted that the Lady Lake Police Chief, Steven W. Hunt, is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
A press release from November 2024 named Fields as a co-defendant to Theodore 'Ted' John Satori Sr., 64, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for exchanging cash and other various items for sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Satori 'provided cash, a car, a motorcycle, Christmas presents, and vacations to a friend from 2013-2016 in exchange for access to the victim,' the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri said.
He pleaded guilty in August to a felony charge of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and as part of his plea deal, he agreed to pay more than $25,000 in restitution to the unnamed victim.
During his trial, the victim said that because of Satori she has faced 'life-long trauma, hopeless relationships, PTSD and low self-esteem,' the release said.
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He faces one count of child sex trafficking, but according to court records, he fled his home and failed to show up to court before a warrant was issued for his arrest
While announcing Satori's sentencing, the department also asked for help in locating Fields.
They offered a $25,000 reward for any information leading to his arrest.
A wanted poster that featured multiple mugshots of Fields said that he would often 'visit casinos and has traveled to Florida in the past.'
The FBI also noted features unique to Fields, including a 'tribal print tattoo on his right shoulder,' a scars on his groin, left calf, both knees, both legs, and chest.
He is expected to be scheduled for his first appearance in federal court in Florida though the exact date has not yet been announced.