Texas 10 Most Wanted sex offender arrested in Plano operation
A 64-year-old sex offender on Texas’ 10 Most Wanted list was arrested at a Plano apartment complex after a tip led investigators to him.
Texas Department of Public Safety agents arrested Kenneth Wayne Patterson at a Plano apartment complex on June 24 after investigators followed a tip and closed in on one of the state’s 10 Most Wanted sex offenders. Patterson, 64, had been wanted since December 2025 on a Dallas County warrant for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements, and he had a 1989 Dallas County conviction for sexual assault of a child involving an 8-year-old girl.
The Plano arrest was part of a coordinated operation that also produced arrests in Houston and Hidalgo on June 22. The other suspects were Eduardo Quinones Fuentes and Leroy Lewis Jr.; Fuentes was arrested in Hidalgo and Lewis was taken into custody in Houston. The cases were handled through multi-agency work.
Fuentes had been wanted since October 2025 on parole violation and obstruction warrants and since November 2025 on a Hidalgo County warrant for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. He was a documented Tango Valluco gang member who had absconded to Mexico. Lewis had been wanted since March 3, 2026, on a Harris County warrant for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements. He was released on parole in 2012 and was required to register as a sex offender.
The Texas 10 Most Wanted program operates with the Office of the Governor’s Texas Crime Stoppers program to track fugitives and wanted sex offenders. Tipsters can remain anonymous and may qualify for rewards, and a Texas Crime Stoppers reward will be paid for Patterson’s arrest. Texas law enforcement had arrested 44 fugitives from the state’s most-wanted lists in 2026 and paid out $61,500 in Crime Stoppers rewards.
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