Overview
- A second superseding indictment in Houston charges alleged senior figures Yohan Jose Romero, Juan Gabriel Rivas Nunez, Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano and Jose Enrique Martinez Flores with providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, with Mosquera Serrano and Martinez Flores also accused of international cocaine distribution.
- New Mexico prosecutors indicted 11 alleged members and leaders on racketeering counts tied to a June 2024 kidnapping, interrogation and strangulation in Albuquerque, with defendants facing potential life sentences if convicted.
- In Colorado, a federal grand jury charged Giovanni Mosquera Serrano and Brawins Dominique Suarez Villegas with a RICO conspiracy tied to robberies, extortion, kidnapping, money laundering and drug crimes, and a co-defendant in a related jewelry heist was sentenced to 20 years on Dec. 17.
- An alleged mastermind, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, was charged in New York with racketeering conspiracy and providing support to terrorists, remains at large and is the subject of a State Department reward offer up to $5 million.
- Authorities report Martinez Flores is in Colombian custody pending proceedings, Mosquera Serrano is on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list with a reward offer up to $5 million, and rewards up to $4 million are offered for Romero as multiagency task forces continue investigations.