FBI offers $5,000 reward for Madras man missing since 2015
(Update: Adding pending arrest warrant, FBI statement, family comment)
The FBI has announced a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to a 30-year-old man who disappeared in the Madras area nearly three years ago.
A “missing person” wanted poster was placed online and in social media by the FBI on Thursday for Antonio Rafael Madrigal, who had been working as a day laborer and farm laborer, mostly in Central Oregon. He last was seen in the Madras area in July of 2015, the agency said.
The Oregon office of the FBI and the Warm Springs Safe Trails Task Force are seeking the public’s help in finding Madrigal. The task force is one of 14 around the country that unites the FBI with other law enforcement agencies “in a collaborative effort to combat the growth of crime in Indian Country,” according to a website for the organization.
Madrigal is described as Hispanic, 6-foot-5 and 210 to 240 pounds. He has three tattoos, the agency said: a feather with the word ‘Gabriel’ on his left arm, a bear on his left shoulder and a wolf on his neck.
Anyone with information about Madrigal is urged to contact their local FBI office.
Jefferson County court records show a judge signed a statewide arrest warrant for Madrigal in late July 2015 after he failed to complete a 5-day jail term, probation and restitution for a third-degree theft conviction stemming from the 2014 theft of a woman’s keys and key ring.
FBI-Oregon spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele said regardless of Madrigal’s criminal history, the FBI is helping look for him because local agencies have requested the agency’s assistance in “a somewhat cold case that could use some targeted attention” in Jefferson County.
A family member said Madrigal, who was born in Madras and is a U.S. citizen, did unfortunately “hang with unsavory sorts, and this possibly led to his having gone missing.” But she noted that “nearly his entire family is in the Central Oregon area” and he has not contacted any of them.
