Dangerous Criminal Wanted for 20 Years Found Working as Police Officer

It's a bizarre world out there, folks. Not only do you have to worry about people committing crimes that might hurt of affect you, now you have to take a second look at the police officers who show up to respond.

Dangerous Criminal Wanted for 20 Years Found Working as Police Officer

This is a scary story. A former Cincinnati police officer named Antonio “El Diablo” Riano was wanted in America for a fatal shooting almost 20 years ago.

Here in America, we have a pretty extensive network of wanted criminals. You can be wanted on the local level, state level and federal level, each increasing the importance of you getting found.

Riano was wanted on a very serious charge: murder. The incident unfolded in 2004 and was all caught on camera outside of a Cincinnati bar.

Riano got into a confrontation outside the bar with another patron and is on video pulling out a gun and shooting him in the face, killing him.

For decades, Riano was on the United States of America's Most Wanted List. After a few years, though, they stopped actively looking for him, and it turned into somewhat of a cold case.

But then social media got invented, and Riano was dumb enough to create a Facebook profile. An eager officer randomly searched Riano's name on Facebook and was shook when he saw the person they have been looking for, right in front of his eyes.

Riano was working in plain sight as a police officer at the Zapotitlan Palmas Police Department in Mexico. When asked why he became a police officer in Mexico, he said he "wanted to help the people of Mexico."

Here you have a man on video committing a murder, who is wanted in the States, casually working as a police officer not too far away in Mexico.

Eventually, American authorities were able to get in touch with Mexican authorities, who arrested Riano and brought him back to America to face the music.

Evan Paul is the host of Taste of Country Nights, a syndicated radio show heard on more than 130 country radio stations nationwide, every night from 7PM to midnight. He plays the best new country music and interviews today's top stars, like Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Dan + Shay, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, Lady A, + more!