A fugitive once on the FBI’s Most Wanted list admitted to sex trafficking a teenage girl in exchange for lavish gifts, according to authorities.
Donald Eugene Fields II, 61, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of child sex trafficking for accepting luxurious gifts for providing his pal access to a minor beginning when she was 14, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Fields took bribes — including cash, a car, a motorcycle, Christmas presents, and vacations — from his friend and co-defendant Theodore “Ted” John Sartori Sr from the winter of 2013 until the summer of 2016, prosecutors said.
Sartori “engaged in illegal sexual activity with the minor” and, in the summer of 2016, financed a vacation to Florida and drove the underage girl there with the intention of having sex, officials added.
Fields “instructed the minor to engage in sexual activity with Satori,” prosecutors said in a press release.
Fields also faced state charges of statutory rape, statutory sodomy, child molestation, and witness tampering in Franklin County, Missouri, at the time — but fled his home and was a no-show at a May 2022 court hearing, according to a prior FBI press release.
He was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in May 2023.
The creep was finally cuffed on Jan. 26, 2025, after cops in Lady Lake, Florida, learned he was on the Most Wanted list during a routine traffic stop, according to authorities.
Police pulled the creep over after noticing the license plate on his car was not registered to the vehicle he was driving, the FBI said.
Sartori, now 65, is serving a 10-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Fields will be sentenced on July 15 and face a minimum of 10 years or a maximum of life behind bars.
