LADY LAKE, Fla. – A Missouri man who was one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was arrested Saturday in Florida after two years on the run.
The FBI’s St. Louis Division announced that Donald Eugene Fields II was arrested during a traffic stop Saturday morning near Orlando, Florida. The FBI credits the Lady Lake Police Department for proactive policing that led to Fields’ arrest.
Fields, 60, is accused of child sex trafficking and child rape in state and federal court.
In December 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri issued a federal arrest warrant for Fields, following an indictment for a child sex trafficking charge. He was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives list in May 2023.
Authorities say Fields and a co-defendant, identified as Theodore “Ted” Sartori Sr., attempted to recruit, entice, provide, and patronize at least one underage girl into engaging in commercial sex acts, from January 2013 to June 2017.
Fields also faces charges of statutory rape, statutory sodomy, child molestation, and witness tampering in Franklin County Circuit Court.