Overview
- Texas prosecutors unsealed a second superseding indictment charging four alleged senior figures with providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, with two also accused of international cocaine distribution.
- New Mexico charged 11 alleged members in a RICO case that details a 2024 kidnapping, interrogation and strangulation in Albuquerque, plus related violence, drug offenses and firearms counts that carry potential life sentences.
- Colorado indicted Brawins Suarez Villegas and Giovanni Mosquera Serrano on RICO and robbery charges tied to two armed jewelry-store heists and an October 2024 kidnapping; a co-defendant in a related case was sentenced to 20 years this week.
- New York charged alleged top leader Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores with racketeering conspiracy, material support to terrorists and cocaine importation conspiracy; he remains a fugitive with a reward offer of up to $5 million.
- Nebraska returned two indictments charging 54 people, some linked to Tren de Aragua, in an alleged nationwide ATM “jackpotting” scheme using Ploutus malware, as officials say more than 70 defendants were charged in this week’s coordinated actions and over 260 nationally this year.