Security News: Leader Of Tren De Aragua Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Racketeering, Terrorism, Drug Importation, And Firearms Offenses

Source: United States Department of Justice

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Louis A. D’Ambrosio, Co-Director of Joint Task Force Vulcan (“JTFV”), Jacob Warren, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), Ricky J. Patel, Special Agent in Charge of the Houston Field Office of the FBI, Douglas Williams, and Special Agent in Charge of the Andean Division of the DEA, Eugene L. Crouch, announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging HECTOR RUSTHENFORD GUERRERO FLORES, a/k/a “Niño Guerrero,” a/k/a “El Cejón,” a/k/a “El Innombrable,”[1] in connection with GUERRERO FLORES’s leadership role in Tren de Aragua (“TdA” or the “Enterprise”), a transnational criminal organization operating throughout North America, South America, and Europe, which has also been designated as a foreign terrorist organization.