{
  "uid": "fbi-ten-omar-alexander-cardenas",
  "slug": "omar-alexander-cardenas",
  "name": "OMAR ALEXANDER CARDENAS",
  "agency": "FBI",
  "list": "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives",
  "category": "Violent crime",
  "charge": "Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Murder",
  "reward": 1000000,
  "reward_text": "FBI/State Dept reward $1,000,000",
  "location": "Los Angeles, CA",
  "state": "CA",
  "state_name": "California",
  "status": "At large",
  "warning": "ARMED AND DANGEROUS",
  "image_url": "https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/omar-alexander-cardenas/@@images/image/large",
  "source_url": "https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/omar-alexander-cardenas",
  "updated": "2026-06-05",
  "kind": "wanted",
  "caution": "",
  "remarks": "",
  "hook": "A man was shot dead in a crowded Sylmar shopping center in 2019. The suspect walked away and never came back.",
  "blurb": "It happened in daylight, in a busy outdoor shopping center just outside Los Angeles, in August 2019: several rounds from a semi-automatic handgun, a man dead at the scene. Omar Alexander Cardenas was charged with the murder and is presumed innocent. He was last tied to the Los Angeles area, and then the ties simply stopped.",
  "mystery": "Years later the case is still open, and a $1 million reward waits for whoever can say where he went.",
  "rib": "",
  "ribcls": "",
  "source_class": "fbi_sync",
  "corroborated_agencies": [],
  "sections": {
    "photo": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "charges": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "location": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "reward": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "source": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "corroboration": {
      "status": "empty",
      "message": "No other authoritative agency currently lists a matching name for this case."
    }
  }
}