A former Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. The announcement was made by United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.
Raymond Lee Trejo, 36, from Abilene, Texas, pleaded guilty in August 2025 to failure to register as a sex offender. On December 11, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix handed down the sentence.
Court documents show that Trejo was convicted in 2009 for sexual assault of a child involving a 14-year-old girl in Taylor County, Texas. He received a ten-year sentence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Following his conviction, Trejo was required under state and federal law to register as a sex offender wherever he lived or worked. This included registering his address and other information with local law enforcement agencies.
Trejo was informed about these obligations upon his release from prison in 2019 and again after an arrest in 2022 for not reporting a change in employment status.
According to court records, Trejo left Abilene around November 2023 without notifying authorities about any change in residence or employment. Efforts by Taylor County law enforcement to locate him were unsuccessful. In May 2024, an arrest warrant was issued for failure to register as a sex offender. By December 2024, Trejo had been added to the Texas DPS 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list.
Authorities later learned that Trejo had been living and working in Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma since at least September 2024 without registering as required either there or back in Taylor County. He did not notify officials of his move or employment change.
In March 2025, Trejo was arrested at his workplace in Stilwell and extradited back to Taylor County. His actions involved crossing state lines from Texas into Oklahoma while failing to comply with registration laws of both states—actions that violated the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
The investigation involved multiple agencies: United States Marshals Service for the Northern District of Texas (Abilene Division), Eastern District of Oklahoma (Muskogee Division), Abilene Police Department, Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Department of Public Safety, Stilwell Police Department (Oklahoma), Adair County Sheriff’s Office (Oklahoma), and Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Assistant U.S. Attorney Callie Woolam prosecuted the case with help from the Taylor County District Attorney’s Office.
United States Attorney Ryan Raybould stated: "The Justice Department is committed to combating child sexual exploitation and brought this case as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice." He added: "Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims."
For more information about Project Safe Childhood visit www.justice.gov/psc. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children operates a hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST and provides additional resources at missingkids.org.
