A Venezuelan national with ties to the Tren de Aragua gang has been charged in connection to a failed ATM heist in Dexter, Mich., that led to a police pursuit and fatal car crash earlier this month.
Federal prosecutors filed the charges this week against Venezuelan national Yosue Manuel Gonzalez-Moy for conspiracy to commit bank larceny.
Upon interviewing the suspect, Gonzalez-Moy allegedly confessed to the crime and said it was part of a larger conspiracy by TdA members based in Chicago to rob ATMs.
He is accused of conspiring with others to break into a drive-thru ATM in Dexter a week prior, according to the criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday. The attempted robbery ended with one co-conspirator dying in a crash while fleeing from county deputies.
Gonzalez-Moy, 24, and unidentified co-conspirators associated with Tren de Aragua, attempted to rob a Chelsea State Bank branch’s ATM on Oct. 12, 2025, per the criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said he entered the U.S. in 2023, CBS News reported.
The complaint states that Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about a suspicious person around 2:50 a.m. on Oct. 12 at Chelsea State Bank, 7101 Dexter-Ann Arbor Road in Dexter.
An alarm company employee told deputies that they observed a male suspect, who was wearing blue pants and a blue hooded sweatshirt, tampering with the ATM. The suspect was later identified as Gonzalez-Moy, according to the FBI.
The alarm company employee also reported that the suspect drove away in a red Chevrolet vehicle with a dealer’s license plate and gave authorities the vehicle’s plate number.
While responding to the call, deputies saw a red Chevrolet matching the vehicle’s description traveling in the opposite direction. The deputies initiated a traffic stop and told the driver, who is identified as a “Co-conspirator 1,” to roll down his window, but he allegedly refused, the complaint states.
The driver finally rolled down his window and turned the vehicle off, but then restarted the car and sped off, prompting deputies to initiate a police chase, according to the FBI.
“The deputies re-initiated their pursuit of the red Chevy,” said FBI Special Agent Michael J. Stepp, in the criminal complaint. “At one point, the red Chevy was traveling at 74 miles per hour in a posted 50 mile per hour zone. As the red Chevy drove over a hill, CC-1 lost control of the red Chevy and crashed head-on into a tree.”
Deputies found the driver pinned inside, unresponsive, with “labored and irregular breathing.”
Co-conspirator 1, the driver, was transported to the hospital but later died as a result of his injuries. Authorities identified the driver from an Illinois Identification Card and a United States of America Employment Authorization Card that were found inside the vehicle.
Gonzalez-Moy, a passenger in the back seat, suffered “significant injuries” and was taken to the University of Michigan hospital, according to the complaint.
Deputies conducted a search of the vehicle and found an iPhone. During the investigation, they also recovered along the road a device that matched the description of a device that Gonzalez-Moy was seen on security footage attempting to install in the ATM, as well as a circuit board.
Authorities also reviewed security video from the bank, which captures Gonzalez-Moy on camera tampering with the ATM. He allegedly approached the key lock of the ATM, “easily opened” the lower access door and then opened the top portion of the ATM, the FBI said.
Gonzalez-Moy then reached into the right-side of the ATM before he closed it and appeared to lock door. “Moy then hurriedly returned to the red Chevy and the red Chevy drove away,” according to the complaint.
After about 20 minutes, the car returns and Gonzalez-Moy is seen on camera accessing the ATM in the same way. Investigators allege Gonzalez-Moy places the box with a white stripe inside the ATM.
Gonzalez-Moy is allegedly seen holding a cellphone and a cordless drill as he closes the ATM before leaving in the red Chevrolet.
“The black box with the white stripe appeared to match the same device that deputies recovered while searching the patch of travel of the red Chevy,” according to the criminal complaint.
Gonzalez-Moy initially denied participating in the ATM break-in during an Oct. 12 interview by investigators at the hospital, the FBI said. Deputies told him they had security footage of the ATM break-in, and that he is in the footage looking at the camera.
Gonzalez-Moy later admitted to the attempted break-in and said he was “worried about being deported,” according to the complaint. He also said he was connected with the Tren de Aragua gang in Chicago and that the gang “blackmailed him into robbing ATMs.”
According to Stepp, Gonzalez-Moy told investigators that Tren de Aragua members “provided him a route which identified ATMs to rob and that the Chelsea State Bank ATM was the first ATM on the route.”
Gonzalez-Moy explained to investigators that while the black box device was connected to the ATM, “co-conspirators could access the ATM remotely,” and said that “co-conspirators would send him a passcode that would allow him to withdraw all of the currency inside the ATM,” according to the FBI.
The incident at the Ann Arbor-area bank is among a growing number of crimes tied to illegal aliens, organized crime and gangs such as TdA in Michigan, The Detroit News reported. The Trump administration designated the group a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year.
In late July 2025, an alleged TdA gang member was caught during a traffic stop near Detroit, Fox News Digital reported. Three people inside the car were all in the United States illegally, including Manuel Zavala-Lopez, an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member who entered the country during the Biden administration in May 2023 and was released, according to DHS.
In September, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan charged three Guatemalans with conspiracy to sell phony permanent resident cards and social security account number cards to illegal immigrants, according to a news release.
