The U.S. State Department on Wednesday increased to $5 million a reward for information leading to the arrest of Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, a leader of the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua.
Mosquera Serrano, 37, is the first Tren de Aragua member to make the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. The criminal gang is considered a global terrorist organization by the United States and continues to expand in the Western Hemisphere, according to U.S. officials.
“This brutally violent transnational gang is a deadly criminal threat to the entire hemisphere,” State Department spokesman Thomas Pigott said in a statement on Wednesday….