Diplomatic security service, “Operation without Heart”, dismantling the Colombian human smuggling network to the United States

On April 29, 2025, private agents with the Diplomatic Security Office (DSS) in Houston Field, with the support of ice enforcement and removal, Johanna Corfu Castersterlon arrested for overcoming her visa in the United States and conspiring with the Colombian human ring to exploit the American travel system. Cuervo is the seventh and last suspect who has been arrested in an operation without a heart, which is a multi -year -old international investigation led by DSS and coordinated with the Colombian National Police and partners of the Ministry of Internal Security.

DSS special agents and criminal investigators at the American embassy in Bogota opened an uncle without heart in January 2024 with an investigation into Alvaro Andres Trevin Hernandez, who was suspected of training Colombian applicants for visa interviews and filling their unwilling visas applications on the Internet from his laws award in Bogota. DSS investigators have noted that a large -scale large number of visa applicants used Sharia death certificates in Florida to appeal fraudulently that they need to attend funerals for deceased relatives in the United States. Advanced funeral claims allow the speedy visa interview dates and consider traveling to the United States.

DSS investigators followed Florida’s death certificates and learned that Trevino conspired with Cuervo. The investigation discovered that Trivino and Cuervo obtained the legal death certificates in Florida and submitted them to applicants to apply to the Consular Consular Issues at the embassy Bogota to support the demands of the wrong visa justifications. Cuervo worked in a Colombian -based human smuggling ring, which raised $ 1.2 million with this scheme.

DSS investigation revealed a criminal group that helped more than 1500 applicants apply for travel visas to the United States. This scheme ended when the DSS and the Colombian national police arrested the leader of the wife and five partners on October 18, 2024, but Koyo remained in Houston, Texas. DSS investigator in Bogota continues to the DSS HOUSTON FILED office to help track it.

On April 29, 2025, the DSS Houston Field office and the Ministry of Internal Security submitted and arrested Cuervo in Houston. She confessed to plotting with Trivino to illegally help the Colombians apply for travel visas to the United States. It is required in Colombia on charges of human smuggling and will be deported under the authority of address 8 to confront justice.

“It ended an operation without a criminal institution that took advantage of the American travel system and threatened the integrity of our borders,” said DSS, Acting Acting Representative Joe Young. “DSS makes America safer thanks to excellent criminal investigation and invaluable support than our colleagues at the Colombian partners.”

Through its global imprint, DSS is uniquely located to take advantage of partnerships and coordination with American, international and foreign law enforcement to conduct criminal investigations through national.