{
  "uid": "dea-maduro",
  "slug": "nicolas-maduro-moros",
  "name": "NICOLAS MADURO MOROS",
  "agency": "DEA",
  "list": "DEA · State Narcotics Reward, Cartel de los Soles",
  "category": "Narcotics",
  "charge": "Narco-terrorism and cocaine-importation conspiracy; alleged member of the FTO-designated Cartel de los Soles. Indicted in the Southern District of New York.",
  "reward": 50000000,
  "reward_text": "The U.S. offered up to $50 million, the largest reward in the history of the Narcotics Rewards Program.",
  "location": "Venezuela (in U.S. custody)",
  "state": "",
  "state_name": "",
  "status": "Captured",
  "warning": "",
  "image_url": "",
  "source_url": "https://www.state.gov/nicolas-maduro-moros",
  "updated": "2026-06-05",
  "kind": "wanted",
  "caution": "",
  "remarks": "",
  "hook": "He led Venezuela for over a decade. In January 2026, U.S. forces took him out of Caracas and into a Brooklyn courtroom.",
  "blurb": "For years, U.S. prosecutors pursued Nicolas Maduro Moros not as a head of state but as a criminal defendant, indicted in New York on narco-terrorism and cocaine charges as an alleged member of the FTO-designated Cartel de los Soles. By August 2025 the reward for his arrest had reached $50 million, the largest in the history of the Narcotics Rewards Program. He has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent.",
  "mystery": "On January 3, 2026, U.S. forces captured him in Caracas. The $50 million question was answered; the trial is only beginning.",
  "rib": "",
  "ribcls": "",
  "source_class": "agency_scrapers",
  "corroborated_agencies": [],
  "sections": {
    "photo": {
      "status": "empty",
      "message": "No photo has been released for this case."
    },
    "charges": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "location": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "reward": {
      "status": "not_applicable",
      "message": "This case has been resolved; no reward is currently being offered."
    },
    "source": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "corroboration": {
      "status": "empty",
      "message": "No other authoritative agency currently lists a matching name for this case."
    }
  }
}