Overview
- Texas prosecutors unsealed a second superseding indictment charging Yohan Jose Romero, Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, Juan Gabriel Rivas Nunez, and Jose Enrique Martinez Flores with providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and, for two defendants, international cocaine distribution.
- Colombian authorities previously arrested Martinez Flores on a U.S. provisional warrant and he remains in custody, while Mosquera Serrano is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list and subject to a State Department reward offer.
- New Mexico charged 11 alleged members with RICO conspiracy and violent crimes tied to the June 2024 kidnapping, interrogation, and strangulation of a victim in Albuquerque, with additional allegations connected to a fatal August 2024 shootout in Aurora, Colorado.
- Colorado indicted alleged leaders Brawins Dominique Suarez Villegas and Mosquera Serrano on a RICO conspiracy spanning robberies, extortion, kidnapping, and drug crimes, as a co-defendant in a related jewelry heist received a 20-year sentence this week.
- New York unsealed an indictment against alleged top boss Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores for racketeering conspiracy and terrorism-related support offenses, with prosecutors noting he remains a fugitive as a $5 million reward seeks his capture.