A Venezuelan man accused of building the software that drained American ATMs for Tren de Aragua pleaded not guilty in federal court in Nebraska on Friday.

Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, 50, went by Prometheus and The Engineer. He was captured in Venezuela last month and returned to the United States.

FBI Director Kash Patel said he was the tenth Ten Most Wanted fugitive captured since the beginning of the Trump administration, and the first cyber fugitive ever placed on the list.

That second distinction is the one worth sitting with. The Ten Most Wanted list has existed since 1950 and has never had a hacker on it until now.

The scheme he is accused of running is called ATM jackpotting. Malicious software is loaded onto a cash machine and instructed to empty itself.

Prosecutors say Canelon Aguirre led a large international conspiracy to steal millions of dollars from financial institutions in support of Tren de Aragua, and that he developed the software it ran on, going back to at least 2024.

He faces four federal conspiracy counts. Bank fraud conspiracy, which carries up to thirty years, plus bank burglary conspiracy, computer fraud and money laundering conspiracy, and providing material support to terrorists.

He will remain detained pending trial. Fox News reported the arraignment.

Everything from here is allegation. Charges have been filed and nothing has been proven to a jury.

What the case shows, if the government proves it, is how a street gang changed shape.

Tren de Aragua is known in this country for violence you can see. Kidnappings, extortion, bodies.

The charge here describes something else entirely. A gang with a software developer on payroll, writing code to steal from banks at scale, funding the rest of the operation from a laptop.

That is the part law enforcement is slowest to match. A kidnapping has a crime scene and a jurisdiction, while this has neither, and the man accused of running it sat in a country that does not extradite.

He is in Nebraska now. That took the FBI putting a hacker on a list built for bank robbers and murderers.