MIAMI – A widower who co-owned the Miguelito Barber Shop in Florida City, Miami-Dade County, is accused of transporting cocaine and cash while working in both cocaine trafficking and in money laundering on behalf of traffickers, records show. Investigators say he worked in the Orlando and Miami areas, Colombia and his native Dominican Republic.

Court records show FBI and DEA agents had already identified Miguel Aguasvivas – whose 31-year-old wife Catherine Guerrero was killed in April – as a money courier who earned commissions to help launder dirty money through cryptocurrency for years.

Investigators reported that Guerrero, born in the Dominican Republic, was supposed to collect more than $160,000 on April 11 in the Orlando area, so she drove a white 2017 Dodge Durango from the deep south of Miami-Dade County to Seminole County and disappeared.

A witness recorded video showing a carjacking at East Lake Drive and Tuskawilla Road. A man armed with a rifle jumped out of an older model green Acura and took Guerrero hostage. Shortly afterward, witnesses reported hearing gunshots and seeing smoke at a construction site in Osceola County. Firefighters found Guerrero dead in the burning Dodge Durango.

According to a pretrial court order, the DEA was investigating a drug trafficking organization in Colombia earlier this year. Records show agents linked Aguavivas to a $111,000 drop on March 15, and the drug dogs focused on the cash Aguavivas was carrying on April 4.

As detectives searched for Guerrero’s killers, Aguasvivas met with an undercover DEA agent to negotiate 15 kilos of cocaine, and a man who said his father was a prolific drug trafficker in the Dominican Republic said June 5 to an undercover DEA agent that Aguavivas had worked with.

FBI agents had previously linked Aguasvivas to a $210,860 drop on November 29, 2021 to purchase Tether, a stablecoin; to a brick of cocaine on December 2, 2021; to a drop of $228,340 on December 6, 2021; kilos of cocaine on December 13; and to a drop of $98,940 and a drop of $100,000 on December 14, 2021.

In 2022, an undercover DEA agent said he coordinated a cash drop, and the DEA seized nearly $273,245 and two firearms from Aguavivas’ car. The grand jury indictment against Aguavivas for money laundering was filed on October 16, and a judge issued a detention order on October 28.

In June, prosecutors charged Derek Rodriguez, Giovany Crespo, Jordanish Torres and Kevin Ocasio with Guerrero’s murder.

On Friday, Aguavivas, also known as Miguel Angel Aguasvivas Lizardo, faced a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering before a federal grand jury. Guerrero was also known as Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas.