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- Status
- Wanted
- Agency
- FBI
- Notice
- FBI Top Ten
- Issued
- 2021
- Nationality
- Honduran
- Checked
Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias
Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias, a Honduran national, is one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (notice published in 2021). He is wanted in connection with charges that include murder, drug trafficking, organised crime and extortion. The United States Government is offering a reward of up to $10,000,000 for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias.
He is described as 1.65 m tall, with brown eyes and black hair. Born on 13 February 1982 in San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras, he would now be 44.
- Murder or homicide
- Drug trafficking
- Organised crime
- Extortion or racketeering
- Weapons offences
Charges, as published
- Racketeering Conspiracy (RICO)
- Cocaine Importation Conspiracy
- Possession of Machine Guns
- Conspiracy to Possess Machine Guns
Reward
The United States Government is offering a reward of up to $10,000,000 for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias.
Case details, as published by FBI
Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias is charged federally in the Southern District of New York with racketeering conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and possession and conspiracy to possess machine guns. As the alleged leader of MS-13 for all of Honduras, Archaga Carias allegedly controlled MS-13 criminal activity in Honduras and provided support and resources to the MS-13 enterprise in Central America and the United States with firearms, narcotics, and cash. Archaga Carias is also allegedly responsible for supporting multi-ton loads of cocaine through Honduras to the United States and for ordering and participating in murders of rival gang members and others associated with MS-13. This case is being investigated as part of Joint Task Force Vulcan.
About this notice
The Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has highlighted the FBI's highest-priority federal fugitives since 1950; a place on it usually comes with a substantial reward. About the FBI Ten Most Wanted →
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