The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has announced that two offenders from the Texas 10 Most Wanted list are back in custody. Authorities arrested Dewarren Knowles on August 17 and Antioneo Sims on August 27. A Crime Stoppers reward will be paid for Sims' arrest.
Dewarren Donta Knowles, 36, was apprehended in San Antonio by members of the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, DPS Special Agents, and San Antonio Police Department officers assigned to the Texas Anti-Gang (TAG) Center. Knowles had been wanted since February 2024 after a warrant was issued out of Harris County for his arrest for sexual assault of a child. He is affiliated with the Tree Top Piru Bloods gang and has previous convictions for assault causing bodily injury to a family member, theft of property, and terroristic threat.
Antioneo Ryen Sims, 43, was taken into custody in Houston following tip information. DPS Special Agents and Troopers located and arrested him. In 2008, Sims was convicted of sexual assault of a child involving a 14-year-old girl and sentenced to three years in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison. He also has multiple past convictions for failure to register as a sex offender. Sims had been wanted out of Harris County since January 2024 for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements.
Funded by the Governor’s Public Safety Office, Texas Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards to individuals who provide information leading to the arrest of one of Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, Sex Offenders or Criminal Illegal Immigrants. So far in 2024, DPS and other agencies have arrested 31 individuals from these lists, including 11 sex offenders, 10 gang members, and four criminal illegal immigrants.
To be eligible for cash rewards, tipsters must provide information using one of three methods:
- All tips are anonymous regardless of submission method.
- Tipsters will receive a tip number instead of using their name.
DPS investigators collaborate with local law enforcement agencies to select fugitives for the Texas 10 Most Wanted lists. The current lists with photos can be found online.
