The State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs announced Thursday new and increased reward offers totaling up to $50 million for information leading to the arrests or convictions of Tren de Aragua’s top three leaders.
The offers are part of the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program in coordination with the FBI, DEA, and Justice Department. Tren de Aragua is a violent Foreign Terrorist Organization, which was designated in 2025 by the Trump administration.
The reward for Yohan José Romero, also known as “Yohan Petrica,” increased from up to $4 million to up to $20 million. For Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, also known as “Giovanni” and “El Viejo,” the reward increased from up to $5 million to up to $15 million. And Juan Gabriel Rivas Núñez, also known as “Juancho,” is the subject of a new offer of up to $15 million.
Court documents name Romero as the present-day leader of Tren de Aragua. He leads the group’s operations, which include narcotrafficking, illegal gold mining in Venezuela, and murder.
Mosquera Serrano and Rivas Núñez are each second-in-command to Romero. Mosquera Serrano directs operations in the United States, Colombia, and Central America, while Rivas Núñez leads operations in Venezuela. Mosquera Serrano is one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and has directed multiple acts of violence involving robbery, extortion, and kidnapping.
A superseding indictment, which was filed on July 29 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, charged Romero, Mosquera Serrano, and Rivas Núñez with conspiracy to provide, providing, and attempting to provide material support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
“This brutally violent transnational gang is a deadly criminal threat to the entire hemisphere,” State Department spokesman Thomas Pigott said in a statement at the time.
In June 2025, Mosquera Serrano, then 37, became the first Tren de Aragua member listed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The criminal gang continues to expand throughout the Western Hemisphere, according to U.S. officials.
In June 2026, a U.S. military strike killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Niño Guerrero, then identified as the leader of Tren de Aragua.
“Early in my Administration, I delivered on my promise to designate Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, deport thousands of evil criminals, and wage war against the Cartels, who have long been waging war against our Citizens, while weak leaders left America helpless and defensive,” President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social.
U.S. authorities said Guerrero Flores grew the organization from a prison gang inside Venezuela’s Tocorón penitentiary into a large-scale international criminal organization, expanding into neighboring Latin American states. The State Department had offered up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
Colombian security forces captured Luis Saúl Pérez Nieto, a senior leader also known as Páez and Nairobi, in August 2026, describing him as the leader of Tren de Aragua in Peru and a confidant of Guerrero Flores.
“This arrest hits [Tren de Aragua] where it hurts and demonstrates what determined partnerships can do,” DEA Administrator Terry Cole said at the time. “DEA is proud to stand with Colombia.”
Federal agents have continued arrests of alleged members inside the United States. From Oct. 4 to Oct. 10, 2026, agents took 131 alleged gang-affiliated individuals into custody, including 13 with suspected ties to Tren de Aragua, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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