Alejandro “Alex” Rosales Castillo, a former FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, was arrested on Friday last week in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. The arrest was the result of cooperation between the FBI’s Legal Attaché Office in Mexico City and multiple Mexican and international law enforcement agencies, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department release.
Castillo is charged in connection with the 2016 murder of 23-year-old Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le in Charlotte, North Carolina. Investigators believe Castillo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border shortly after the crime, and surveillance footage showed him in Nogales, Arizona, as per the same release.
Authorities said Castillo remained outside the United States for more than nine years before his arrest. He is currently in custody in Mexico and is awaiting extradition proceedings in Mexico City.
FBI Director Kash Patel and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Estella D. Patterson both acknowledged the role of interagency cooperation in the arrest.
Castillo was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 2023. Since the list was created in 1950, hundreds of fugitives have been captured or located with public assistance.
