Overview
- Federal prosecutors coordinated charges in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska and New York against alleged Tren de Aragua leaders and members for terrorism-related, racketeering, violent-crime, drug-trafficking and cyber/financial offenses, including a New York case against alleged mastermind Hector Guerrero Flores, who remains at large with a reward of up to $5 million.
- In Houston, a second superseding indictment charges Yohan Jose Romero, Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, Juan Gabriel Rivas Nunez and Jose Enrique Martinez Flores with conspiring to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, with Mosquera Serrano and Martinez Flores also charged in an international cocaine distribution scheme; Martinez Flores is in custody in Colombia, Mosquera Serrano is on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, and rewards of up to $4 million and $5 million are offered for Romero and Mosquera Serrano respectively.
- A New Mexico grand jury indicted 11 alleged members on RICO, murder and kidnapping charges that describe the June 2024 abduction, interrogation and strangling of a victim in Albuquerque and a desert burial, with additional allegations tied to a deadly August 2024 armed confrontation in Aurora, Colorado.
- Colorado charged Brawins Dominique Suarez Villegas and Mosquera Serrano with a RICO conspiracy linked to Denver-area jewelry store robberies in June 2024 and a separate October 2024 kidnapping, ransom, torture and disfigurement case; an accomplice in one robbery, Newman Castillo-Delgado, received a 20-year federal sentence.
- Two Nebraska indictments charge 54 defendants, some tied to TdA, with deploying Ploutus malware in ATM ‘jackpotting’ schemes that stole millions, alongside counts that include money laundering, bank fraud, computer fraud and related offenses.