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U.S. Indicts Tren de Aragua Leaders, Places Top Enforcer on FBI Ten Most Wanted List

Terror designations, sanctions, a $3 million reward, unsealed indictments trigger a coordinated international crackdown on the gang’s transnational network.

A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
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Overview

  • A five-count superseding indictment unsealed June 24 charges Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano and Jose Enrique Martinez Flores with providing material support to a designated terrorist group and conspiring to distribute cocaine from Colombia to the United States.
  • Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list with a $3 million reward offered by the State Department’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program.
  • The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Mosquera Serrano under counterterrorism and narcotics authorities for overseeing drug trafficking, extortion and violent crimes on behalf of Tren de Aragua.
  • Jose Enrique Martinez Flores was arrested in Colombia on March 31 under a U.S. provisional warrant and remains in custody pending extradition.
  • February’s foreign terrorist organization designation for Tren de Aragua empowered Operation Take Back America and multinational task forces to intensify efforts against the gang’s cross-border operations.