to be carried on from the United States against the republic of Cuba, a nation which the United States is at peace". Collazo was held on a $10,000 bond. In December 1931, a federal grand jury considered charges against a total of eight men who were charged with planning a military expedition against Cuba while they were in the States including Rosendo and his son Aurelio Collazo, as well as Aurelio Alvarez.

Collazo was detained in Morón, Cuba in September