Vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren of Aragua expanded its territory For at least 16 US states – an area that includes half of the American population, the post has learned.
Internal security officials last week were warned in an intelligence note from the internal department on the growing presence of ADD across the country, more recently in Washington, DC, Virginie, Montana and Wyoming.
The gang is already supplied in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, according to the memo and previous post -reports.
The gang only increased its “violent trends” as it spread, added the memo.
The arrival of Tren de Aragua in the national capital and neighboring Virginia coincided with “the increase in migrant populations,” said the memo.
“While the population of Venezuelan nationals continues to increase, the potential of violent ADD migrants is very likely,” warned the memo.
In a kick with the Gang Cutthroat in Virginia, Fairfax County cops arrested three alleged members in August 2023 for display flight.
One of the suspects had a false Venezuelan identity piece, and all three wore the signing tattoos of the gang.
Gang members target the DC region because they can easily travel to the northern suburbs of Virginia to make flights, flights and attacks, the memo said.
Its members are increasingly engaged in “lower level fraud and theft systems”, returning their stolen funds “in South America as a means of financed additional criminal businesses,” said the memo.
In a case quoted in the document, an alleged member of Tren from Aragua withdrew $ 118,000 from a Florida bank account with “fraudulent check deposits” and cabled money in bank accounts in Venezuela before any fraud.
The sheriff of the most populous county of Wyoming said on Monday at the post that even if he “would not say that they had established a presence” in the Western state, he holds an alleged member of ADD in his prison.
“We have a person in our prison which is suspected of being ADD who is detained in December to be in possession of a stolen car in Colorado,” said the Sheriff of Laramie County, Brian Kozak.
“This is the only arrest of a possible member of ADD in Wyoming, and he only passed when he was arrested. We have not seen an increase in Venezuelan immigrants in Wyoming, in particular the type of criminal gang,” he insisted.
ADD members integrated into the waves of millions of migrants who crossed the American-Mexican border during the Biden-Harris administration. According to the United States, without sharing information between the United States and Venezuela to detect gang members, it was easily released in the United States.
There is still a difficult relationship between the Biden-Harris administration and the Maduro regime of Venezuela, which refuses to accept expulsion flights carrying Venezuelans from the United States to the South American country.
The elected president, Donald Trump, said that the slaughter of Tren de Aragua will be an absolute priority for his administration, which, according to him A historical “mass expulsion” The effort derives not only from the ice but from the American army.
In New York, members of ADD have engaged in shootings of cops, attacks, snatching and grab flights and smuggling of firearms in migrant shelters.
The gang is also said to be engaged in sexual trafficking Migrant women on Roosevelt avenue in Queens.
Apart from the cities and states of the democratic sanctuary, ADD has established itself in other unlikely regions of the country.
The director of Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, David Rausch, told “Fox & Friends” on Friday that the gang had been Manage the rings of human trafficking In Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Chattanooga.
“They go from the trafficking of human beings to an organized retail crime, then they move into the drug trade, taking the cartels in very violent and bloody battles they have had,” said Rausch.
