Texas Crime Alert: APD Releases This Week’s Top 10 Most Wanted

The Abilene Police Department has released its updated list of the Top 10 Most Wanted suspects, and officers are asking the public for help locating these individuals. Crime Stoppers is once again stepping up with cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest, and every tip remains 100% anonymous.

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As someone who’s lived in Abilene for decades and has countless friends in local law enforcement, I know how much our community relies on Abilene Crime Stoppers. Your tip could be the one that helps police close a case or bring a violent offender into custody.

How Crime Stoppers Rewards Work in Abilene

APD wants the public to know exactly how the reward system functions. If your anonymous tip leads to the arrest of a wanted felon, you can earn $100, and for misdemeanor warrants, the reward is $50.

When suspects are highlighted during the “Most Wanted of the Week,” Crime Stoppers may offer higher rewards during that airing period, some up to $1,000.

Tips can be submitted through:

• 325-676-TIPS (8477)
• 1-800-868-8477
• Online Web Tips

Crime Stoppers emphasizes that urgent tips, like knowing a wanted person’s exact location at that moment, should be made by phone to ensure a faster response.

Abilene’s Most Wanted: Week of November 18, 2025

Below is this week’s list as released by APD and the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office. If you recognize any of these individuals, do not attempt to contact or confront them. Simply report what you know using the anonymous tip lines.

1. Julian Agapito Garza
Charge: Aggravated Assault – Family Violence
Reward: $1,000
40-year-old Hispanic male · 5’8” · 285 lbs · Bald · Brown eyes

2. Hayden James Hollingsworth
Charges: Delivery of Methamphetamine; Bestiality (2 counts)
Reward: $500
32-year-old Caucasian male · 6’1” · 190 lbs · Brown hair · Brown eyes

3. Deerica Antoinette Kennedy
Charge: Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity
Reward: $500
25-year-old Black female · 5’2” · 105 lbs · Brown hair & eyes

4. Caneatra Kennedy Dickerson
Charge: Aggravated Assault – Family Violence
Reward: $500
42-year-old Black female · 5’8” · 175 lbs

5. Shemico Lanita Thomas
Charge: Aggravated Assault
Reward: $500
49-year-old Black female · 5’6” · 180 lbs

6. Veronica Marie Perez
Charge: Robbery
Reward: $500
37-year-old Indian female · 5’0” · 210 lbs

7. Alyssa Marie Neals
Charges: Aggravated Assault; Additional Aggravated Assault Counts
Reward: $500
20-year-old Black female · 5’6” · 115 lbs

8. Antwone ReAnce Harden
Charge: Aggravated Assault
Reward: $500
39-year-old Black male · 5’10” · 205 lbs

9. Chawn Bruce Anthony Holliday
Charge: Continuous Violence Against the Family
Reward: $500
20-year-old Caucasian male · 5’9” · 130 lbs

10. Christopher Durst Applin
Charge: Retaliation
Reward: $500
26-year-old Black male · 5’10” · 160 lbs

How Abilene Can Help

If you know where any of these suspects may be, Crime Stoppers wants your information, not your name. Anonymous tips keep our community safer, help families find closure, and support law enforcement as they work to keep Abilene a safer place for all of us.

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