U.S. Offers Up to $50M for Three Tren de Aragua Leaders

U.S. Offers Up to $50M for Three Tren de Aragua Leaders

The U.S. offers up to $50 million for tips leading to the arrests or convictions of three Tren de Aragua leaders, including an FBI most-wanted fugitive.

The Justice Department (DOJ) on Thursday announced up to $50 million in combined rewards for information leading to the arrests or convictions of three fugitive Tren de Aragua leaders. One of them, Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, 37, known as “El Viejo,” is already on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, and the reward for him just tripled, from up to $5 million to up to $15 million.

The largest offer is for Yohan José Romero, 48, whose reward rose from up to $4 million to up to $20 million. The third man, Juan Gabriel Rivas Núñez, 44, is the subject of a new offer of up to $15 million.

Court documents identify Romero as the gang’s current leader. He took over after a U.S. military strike reportedly killed previous leader Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known as Niño Guerrero, in June 2026. Two months later, in August, Colombian forces captured Luis Saúl Pérez Nieto, the gang’s Peru chief. Romero’s two deputies are accused of dividing the work geographically. Mosquera Serran...