The Treasury Department sanctioned the leader of Tren de Aragua — a kingpin with the Spanish-language nickname of “Warrior Boy” — as part of a crackdown on the vicious Venezuelan prison gang’s illicit drug and human trafficking schemes.

Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, aka “Nińo Guerrero,” has served two stints in a Venezuelan jail after being charged with murders and robberies — escaping in 2012 before being recaptured, only to flee the coop again in 2023 — and remains at-large.

Even within the prison at Tocorón in the state of Aragua — from which Tren de Aragua takes its name — Gurrero’s army expanded to more than 1,000 members while he lived in a luxurious two-story house with access to “a swimming pool, baseball field, discotheque, restaurants, and even a zoo,” according to the outlet InSight Crime.

The network would extort both inmates and locals outside the prison’s walls to fund their criminal enterprise, which stretched into Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile and practiced drug and human trafficking, theft and contract killings.

During his rise, Guerrero Flores would add “the control of gold mines in Bolivar State, drug corridors on the Caribbean coast, as well as control of some of the clandestine border crossings between Venezuela and Colombia,” according to the State Department.

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced Thursday that all property and other interests held inside the US or otherwise controlled by people in the US on behalf of Guerrero would be frozen.

Entities with a majority stake held by Guerrero, his wife, Wendy Marbelys Rios Gomez, and four other Tren de Aragua senior members will also be blocked from conducting transactions in the US or with American citizens.

“Today’s action highlights the critical role of leaders like Niño Guerrero and his lieutenants in Tren de Aragua’s efforts to increase its destabilizing influence throughout the region,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

“The Trump Administration will not allow Tren de Aragua to continue to terrorize our communities and harm innocent Americans. In line with President Trump’s mandate to Make America Safe Again, Treasury remains dedicated to dismantling Tren de Aragua and disrupting the group’s campaign of violence.”

Tren de Aragua has been wreaking havoc in US cities, taking over entire apartment complexes and trafficking its trademark “pink cocaine.”

Its members have also committed heinous crimes against Americans — including the rape and murder of young women.

Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, 22, was sexually assaulted, beaten with a rock and killed by Tren de Aragua gangbanger Jose Ibarra in February 2024.

The gruesome homicide earned Ibarra a life sentence from a Georgia judge this past November.

Other gangbangers robbed and engaged in other low-level fraud schemes to send their ill-gotten gains back to South America to finance Tren de Aragua’s criminal enterprise.

The State Department in February designated the gang as a foreign terrorist organization and specially designated global terrorist organization, and Treasury months later also sanctioned Tren de Aragua as a transnational criminal entity.

As of last July, the State Department had also put a $5 million reward offer out for information leading to Guerrero Flores’ arrest.

Each of the additional gang members sanctioned Thursday — including Yohan Jose Romero, known as “Johan Petrica”; Josue Angel Santana Pena, dubbed “Santanita”; Wilmer Jose Perez Castillo, a.k.a. “Wilmer Guayabal”; and Felix Anner Castillo Rondon, or “Pure Arnel” — are close lieutenants or affiliates of Guerrero Flores.

The State Department offered a reward of up to $4 million for the capture of Romero for having flooded Venezuela’s streets “with military-grade weapons” to fight Colombian guerrillas.

Santana Pena was reportedly directing Tren de Aragua homicides, extortions, bombings, theft and other terrorism from prison.

Perez Castillo, a Guerrero Flores lieutenant, has killed Venezuelan officials and a policeman on behalf of the gang.

Castillo Rondon leads the gang’s cell in Chile, Los Gallegos, and is linked to homicides, sexual exploitation of women, drug trafficking, human trafficking and money laundering.

Guerrero Flores’ wife has also been tied to terror financing and enriched herself through Tren de Aragua’s illicit profits.

Former President Joe Biden expedited an influx of Venezuelan nationals to the US under a humanitarian parole program during his administration, allowing in up to 350,000 nationals of the South American country.

The Trump administration moved to scrap their temporary legal status soon after the 47th president took office in January.

Half a million more crossed the border illegally and were released into the US, according to a Janaury report from the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Just months before Biden left office, Tren de Aragua had set up shop in at least 16 US states that contain roughly half of America’s population.