AUSTIN – Texas 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrant Ismael Arias – a convicted child sex offender from Cuba – is this month’s Featured Fugitive. The reward for information leading to his arrest is increased to $4,000 during November if the tip is received this month.

Ismael Arias , 52, from Cuba, has been wanted out of Harris Co. since April 2025, for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements.

Arias has a violent criminal history dating back to 2005 when he was arrested in Florida for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, battery and criminal mischief. In 2006, Arias was arrested in Hudspeth Co., Texas for aggravated sexual assault of a child and aggravated kidnapping. He was arrested again that year in Culberson Co., Texas for sexual assault and kidnapping. A

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