The FBI director’s arrest figures have been slammed as “bogus.”
before senators this week—are only possible because he changed how arrests are counted. Insiders say the FBI now includes in its tally the thousands of arrests of migrants that occurred when bureau agents accompanied DHS officers in joint operations in Minnesota and other target areas.
Such arrests were previously not counted by the bureau as its own, according to MS Now. FBI Director Kash Patel has given news conferences on-site to announce the arrests of fugitives on the FBI’s top ten most-wanted list.
“They are absolutely padding the stats and claiming arrests they would not have claimed ,” a current FBI official told MS Now. “So comparing 2025 to 2024 is not apples to apples. ”“Kash is definitely engineering things to pad his stats,” the former FBI official told the network. The FBI did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment about the allegations.
Spokesman Ben Williamson told MS Now, “The contentions here seeking to discredit law enforcement are false and just the latest attempt to detract from this FBI’s and this administration’s year of the most prolific reduction in crime in United States history. ” FBI Director Kash Patel fiercly defended himself in front of Senators on Tuesday—in part by touting arrest figures that some in his bureau alleged are “padded stats.
”Another point of pride for Patel has been that the FBI has arrested many on the bureau’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He testified Tuesday, “We’ve arrested eight of the top 10 Most Wanted fugitives in the world in 14 months. ” That number has also been singled out as an alleged result of sneaky manipulations behind the scenes.
MS Now reports that the “FBI has accelerated the pace of arrests” on the top 10 Most Wanted list in part by making several “last-minute adds” to it. Of the eight most-wanted fugitive arrests that Patel touted to lawmakers, only two were on the most-wanted list when President Donald Trump took office in January 2025. Further, the network reports that two of the most-wanted arrests were elevated to the list less than 24 hours before they were ultimately apprehended.
An FBI news release shows that one of the top ten most wanted fugitives arrested during the second Trump administration was added to the list mere hours before he was apprehended in Mexico. The most extreme example was the case of alleged double murderer Samuel Ramirez Jr. He was apprehended in Culiacán, Mexico, in March, just an hour and 13 minutes after he was elevated to the Most Wanted list, MS Now reports.
“If the media would like to make light of or discredit capturing some of the most violent and dangerous criminals in the world, then that is certainly a choice,” he told MS Now. FBI spokesman Ben Williamson’s reaction to an MS Now report that accused Director Kash Patel of padding arrest stats.
On X, Williamson shared a graphic that claimed there has been a 20 percent reduction of violent crime in Trump’s second term and that violent crime arrests are up 184 percent.
“Thank you to MSNOW for featuring Director Patel holding up our graphic in the article header,” he said. “Here it is so people can see for themselves the historic reductions in crime across the board under this administration. ” While Patel touted his arrest figures in front of lawmakers, the most viral exchange in his Tuesday testimony was regarding his drinking habits.
Patel said under oath that he “unequivocally and categorically” refuted the allegations of excessive drinking made in a bombshell article inand agreed to take an “audit” test to prove the claims weren’t true. On Wednesday, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen released his own alcohol assessment and challenged Patel to do the same.told me he’d take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test if I did," he wrote on X. “Well, here’s mine.
Given all the lies he told yesterday, I imagine he’ll fudge the numbers here, but let’s see yours, Director Patel. ”
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