The United States is intensifying its search for the highest three leaders of Tren de Aragua, TdA, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, FTO, designated by the Trump administration in 2025.
The Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, in partnership with the FBI, DEA, and Department of Justice, introduced an expanded bounty on Thursday.
The reward offers, totaling as much as $50 million below the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program, are for info resulting in the arrests and/or convictions of the cartel bosses.
The bounty for Yohan José Romero, a.ok.a. “Yohan Petrica,” is now as much as $20 million, up from as much as $4 million; whereas that of Juan Gabriel Rivas Núñez, alias “Juancho,” is as much as $15 million.
For Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, a.ok.a. “Giovanni” and “El Viejo”, the reward supply has been elevated from as much as $5 million to at most $15 million.
Court paperwork present that Romero is the TdA’s present chief and directs the group’s operations, listed as narcotrafficking, unlawful gold mining in Venezuela, and murders.
The Feds say Serrano and Núñez are each second-in-command, with Serrano overseeing TdA operations within the US, Colombia, and Central America, whereas Núñez heads TdA operations in Venezuela.
Serrano, who’s among the many FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and accused of directing acts of violence involving theft and kidnapping, faces expenses for worldwide cocaine distribution.
A superseding indictment filed within the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas charged him and others with conspiracy to supply and try to supply materials assist to an FTO.
Tren de Aragua was beforehand led by Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias “Niño Guerrero,” till he died on June 12, 2026, in a joint US-Venezuelan army airstrike in Bolívar, Venezuela.
