Alleged Tren de Aragua Leaders Indicted With Multiple Charges Including RICO
DENVER / Thursday, December 18, 2025 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that two alleged leaders of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a series of crimes in Colorado. These defendants are facing several charges including a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) conspiracy.
The indictment alleges that the defendants, Brawins Dominique Suarez Villegas, a/k/a “Chino San Vicente,” and Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, a/k/a “Jovani San Vicente,” a/k/a “El Viejo,” and others were members and associates of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization. The indictment charges Suarez Villegas and Mosquera Serrano with a RICO conspiracy, alleging that from May 2024 through on or about March of 2025, Suarez Villegas and Mosquera Serrano conducted activity for Tren de Aragua through a pattern of racketeering activity that included robbery, extortion, kidnapping, money laundering and controlled substance offenses. Suarez Villegas and Mosquera Serrano are also charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and two counts of Hobbs Act Robbery and firearms offenses in connection with the armed robberies of two jewelry stores in the Denver, Colorado area in June of 2024.
Other individuals are facing federal charges related to one of the jewelry store robberies in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado case number 24-cr-247-NYW. One of those defendants, Newman Castillo-Delgado, was sentenced to 240 months in prison on December 17, 2025, after pleading guilty to charges including Hobbs Act Robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence in connection with his role in the robbery of Joyeria El Ruby in June 2024.
Suarez Villegas is also charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping, cyberstalking and a firearms offense related to the kidnapping, ransom, torture and disfigurement of a victim in October of 2024 in Denver, Colorado. Other individuals are facing federal charges related to this crime in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado case number 25-cr-077-JLK.
According to the facts established at the sentencing hearing for Newman Castillo-Delgado related to the robbery of Joyeria El Ruby in June 2024, Mr. Castillo-Delgado and other co-defendants committed an armed robbery of the store, stealing nearly $4,000,000 in jewelry and gold, and brutally beat several employees with a firearm during the robbery. Multiple victims sustained injuries from the attack.
The investigation is being handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Denver Field Office, and the Denver Police Department, with assistance from the Colombian National Police GAULA ELITE unit and DEA Bogota Country Office - Group 3.
In addition to the cases referenced earlier in this release, the District of Colorado this year has announced two additional federal indictments that charged 30 individuals, including Tren de Aragua leaders and members, with drug trafficking, murder-for-hire, and firearms offenses. U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado case numbers: 25-cr-063-SKC, 25-cr-233-RMR, and 25-mj-114-KAS.
The Violent Crime and Immigration Enforcement Section of the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of Colorado is handling the prosecutions, along with members of Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTFV).
JTFV was created in 2019 to eradicate MS-13 and now expanded to target Tren de Aragua, and is comprised of U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country. Those include Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; Eastern and Western Districts of North Carolina; Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia; Southern District of Florida; Eastern District of Texas; Western District of Oklahoma; Northern District of Indiana; and the District of Nevada, as well as the Executive Office for United States Attorneys and the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and the Criminal Division. Additionally, the FBI, DEA, HSI, ATF, USMS, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons are essential law enforcement partners with JTFV. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs and the Criminal Division’s Office of Judicial Attaché in Bogotá, Colombia, provided significant assistance.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Justice Department to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN). On February 20, 2025, the Trump Administration designated TdA as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
The Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Mosquera Serrano. If you have information, please contact the FBI at +1 281-787-9939 (text/WhatsApp/Telegram).
Mosquera Serrano Poster in English: 2025-7-1-Reward-Poster-Giovanni-Tren-de-Aragua-FBI-TOCRP.pdf
Mosquera Serrano Poster in Spanish: 2025-7-1-Reward-Poster-Spanish-Giovanni-TdA-FBI-TOCRP.pdf
The charges contained in the indictments are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Case Number: 1:25-cr-00331-PAB
Contact
USACO.PublicAffairs@usdoj.gov
Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado
