Updated

Updated · Fox News · Aug 14

FBI Captures Gregory Henderson Jr. 3 Days After Adding Alleged Gang Leader to Ten Most Wanted List

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Aug 14

FBI Captures Gregory Henderson Jr. 3 Days After Adding Alleged Gang Leader to Ten Most Wanted List

Q: What surprising role did the USDA play in dismantling a violent Indianapolis drug ring tied to the Sinaloa Cartel and underground dog fighting?

The USDA’s role was not about agriculture in the usual sense — it came through the USDA Office of Inspector General, which helps enforce federal animal-fighting laws and investigate related financial crimes. In the Henderson case, that mattered because prosecutors say the Indianapolis gang was involved not only in trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine, but also in organized dog fighting. The USDA OIG is a regular federal partner in dog-fighting investigations because the Animal Welfare Act falls within USDA’s enforcement orbit. Its agents can help build cruelty and animal-fighting cases, support searches and seizures of animals, and work with the FBI and local police on evidence tied to those operations. The broader record also shows USDA OIG often brings financial-investigations expertise to organized-crime cases, including tracing fraud or money flows that can help sustain larger criminal enterprises. So the surprise was that a department better known for food and farming was involved because the case straddled two areas in its lane: animal-fighting enforcement and, potentially, financial investigative support. In short, USDA helped not by chasing cartel drugs directly, but by targeting the dog-fighting and related criminal infrastructure that was part of the enterprise.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 14

Gregory Henderson Jr., 46, was arrested three days after the FBI put him on its Ten Most Wanted list and offered up to a $1 million reward; authorities did not immediately say where or how he was caught.
Henderson had been sought since an August 2023 federal takedown in Indiana and faces conspiracy charges tied to drug trafficking, money laundering and an alleged animal-fighting venture.
The FBI says he led a violent Indianapolis gang supplied by the Sinaloa Cartel, distributing methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl across Indianapolis and the wider Midwest.
In the 2023 operation, more than 300 officers arrested 18 people and seized 61 guns, drugs, $98,000 in cash and 166 fighting dogs, while Henderson escaped.
His arrest is the ninth Ten Most Wanted capture since Trump returned to office; the FBI says those nine fugitives had spent more than 50 years on the run combined.