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July 18, 2025 5 mins

A 7-year-old boy remains in critical condition after police say his parents starved and tied him up in a closet for years. Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, a senior leader of the Tren de Aragua gang, is now on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, with a $3 million reward offered for his capture. Drew Nelson reports.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart hourly update, breaking.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Crime news Now.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm Drew Nelson. A seven year old boy remains in
critical condition after police say his parents starved him and
tied him up in a closet for years. Chris Freeman,
thirty nine, and Caitlin Freeman, twenty seven, were arrested Wednesday
in Russellville, Arkansas police, charging with first degree battery and
endangering the welfare of a miner. They're being held on
a one hundred thousand dollars cash only bond. More charges

(00:25):
will follow. The boy was brought to Dardenell Regional Medical
Center early Tuesday. His parents did not call nine one one.
They drove him there themselves bypassing a closer hospital. Doctors
transferred him to Children's Hospital in Little Rock. He weighed
twenty eight pounds. He was limp pale, close to death.
Medical staff told police the boy had likely suffered years

(00:48):
of starvation, basically just a skeleton with skin on it.
According to police, they got a warrant and detectives searched
the Freeman home on Sandstone Circle. They found the closet.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
When I inspected it, they know that there was your
feces on the floor. There were scratch marks on the
drywall and even the inside door handle.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Russellville Police Chief David Ewing on KATV says there were
ropes present, and.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
They started developing, you know, evidence that the child or
someone had been kept in that closet secured Darick.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Other children in the home said the ropes were also
used on the boy's five year old sibling. Despite the
evidence of abuse, officers found plenty of food in the house.
They also found several thousand dollars in cash. The freeman's
admitted they locked the boy in the closet and avoid
getting medical help out of fear and shame. The boy
remains hospitalized. Medical professionals called it torture. His two siblings

(01:42):
are now in state custody. More crime and justice news
after this, Giovanni Vescente Mosquerra Serrano, a senior leader of
the Trende ad Agua gang, is now on the FBI
ST ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. There's now a three
million dollar reward fund offered for his capture. Mosquerra Serrano,

(02:06):
known by his nickname Lvie Hope, faces charges of conspiring
to support a terrorist group and distributing cocaine. He is
the first trendy Aragua leader placed on the FBI's top
fugitive list. The US Department of State is offering up
to three million for information leading to an arrest or conviction.
FBI Assistant Special Agent Christopher Soyez states, quote naming Mosquerra

(02:27):
Serrano at top ten fugitive really highlights TDA and shows
our aggressiveness to go after its leadership. What started as
a prison gang in Venezuela around twenty ten grew into
a violent criminal group involved in drugs, human trafficking, and weapons,
with operations now spread out through Latin America and the
United States. Just recently, the US labeled trendy Aragua a

(02:48):
terrorist group. In April, a federal grand jury indicted Moscuerra
Serrano and another gang leader, Jose Enriquez Martinez Flores. Columbian
police arrested Martinez Flores, but Mosquerra Serrano escape. Investigators think
he is hiding in Venezuela or Colombia. He is considered
armed and dangerous. FBI officials say Trendeo Ragua sends its
members into the United States for drugs and human trafficking.

(03:10):
Pleise Sey Mosquerta Serrano oversees this agent, Soyez says quote
with TDA, we've seen instances of extreme violence and intimidation
causing a terror in our communities. The FBI urges anyone
with information to contact them. You can reach them at
eight hundred, call FBI Tips dot FBI dot gov, or
via WhatsApp at two eight one seven eight seven ninety

(03:31):
nine thirty nine, Maurice Jefferson, age sixteen, is forced into
a car in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is never seen again.
It was November thirtieth of nineteen eighty three when Maurice
Lauran Jefferson left his grandmother's house on Northwest thirtieth Terrace.
He was headed to basketball practice at Dillard High School.
He arrived at the Franklin Park basketball court, but disappeared there.

(03:53):
Two teenage girls later told police they saw Maurice forced
into an oldsmobile by two men. Never confirmed this story. Still,
Maurice never returned home. He left behind his wallet, identification,
and money at his grandmother's house. At the time, Maurice
bounced between his grandma's house in Florida and his mother's
home in Alabama. Maurice was very active in school and

(04:15):
the community. He sang in the choir at Piney Grove
First Baptist Church. He played junior varsity basketball and ram track.
He was also a junior ROTC cadet. Maurice streamed of
becoming a doctor. Police did not begin looking for Maurice
until three days after his family reported him missing, and
they found no clues. Maurice was black, five to eleven,

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one hundred, twenty pounds. He was bow legged. He had
black hair with red tips and brown eyes. His hair
changed color depending on the weather, sometimes appearing orange on
hot days. He has a mole on the top of
his right ear and two warts on his right wrist.
He wore a white T shirt, short beige pants, long socks,
and white sneakers when he disappeared. Anyone with information can

(04:58):
contact the Broward County shareff's office at nine five four
four eight zero forty three hundred. For the latest crime
and justice news, follow Crime Alert wherever you get your podcasts.
You can find us online at crimeonline dot com and
catch Nancy at her new time seven pm Eastern on
Merritt Street Media. Check your local listings four Channel Assignment,

(05:18):
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