NEW YORK An alleged leader of the Tren de Aragua gang labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization has been charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including lending support to terrorists among crimes that stretched more than a decade, authorities announced Thursday.
Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, a 42-year-old Venezuelan man, was the mastermind of the group’s evolution from a Venezuelan prison gang into a transnational terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a release as he revealed the unsealing of an indictment.
