Ten members or associates of the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua have been accused of positions of administer .
The accusations, announced by the Queens District Prosecutor, Melinda Katz, occurred after an undercover operation of more than 8 months by the District Prosecutor’s Office, the New York City Police and other application agencies of the law. Six of the people accused in the accusation of 120 charges without sealing Wednesday were arrested Tuesday for firearm, drugs and conspiracy charges.
The Aragua train Gang has been linked To a series of kidnappings, extortion and other crimes throughout the Western hemisphere linked to a massive exodus of migrants from Venezuela, where the gang originated more than a decade ago. The public awareness of Aragua’s train in the United States uploaded after the images of a security camera appeared on social networks that show a group of heavily armed men who made their way in an apartment in the suburb of Aurora de Denver . President Donald Trump said during his campaign he planned ” Liberate Aurora “From Venezuelans, he said falsely that they were” assuming the entire city. “
The members of the violent street gang have been blamed for sex trafficking, drug smuggling and police shootings in the United States, as well as the exploitation of migrants.
Of those arrested in the accusation of Queens, two were arrested in Texas and Florida. Four suspects were arrested in New York in an operation that left a city police officer with a severely fractured arm after a defendant criticized him with a door while trying to escape, authorities said.
Two of those suspects had been prosecuted until Wednesday afternoon.
Katz said that the charges had not yet been presented in the ongoing investigation on the assault on the officer. He praised those involved in the covert operation for seizing weapons and drugs.
“As a result of our research, 34 dangerous weapons are now out of the streets, and we are dismantling this gang while trying to establish locally.” Katz said, adding that two of those weapons were ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that are difficult to track, one of an AR style rifle and the other a modified firearm to continually shoot like an automatic weapon.
Two other suspects appointed in the accusation, including the alleged header, in Yerbert Blanco, 24, were already in custody for other positions, authorities said. Two others remain in general.
The detailed authorities in the accusation how the group used the Telephone WhatsApp application to communicate on arms sales, some of which occurred in broad daylight in parking lots or hiding weapons in garbage bags.
The authorities claim that three of the defendant suspects, including Blanco, obtained the weapons of other states, including some weapons that had been reported stolen. Another suspect provided weapons of his own firearms inventory. Many of the other suspects acted as emails to deliver the weapons.
The accusation alleges that the criminal company also tried to deliver internationally to Colombia, hoping to increase its profits. Those attempts were frustrated by the covert operation, authorities said.
Undercover officers bought some of the weapons as part of the operation, according to the district prosecutor’s office. These officers also bought 48 grams of pink cocaine also known as Tusi, a mixture of cocaine, mdma and ketamine, of the defendants during the operation.
The New York Police detective chief Joseph Kenny said on Wednesday that all members of Aragua’s train had illegally entered the country around 2023. He said retail theft. He said that the gang unit has identified at least 67 gang members in the city.
The arrests on Tuesday arrived the same day that he recently confirmed to the Secretary of National Security of the United States. Kristi Noem He joined federal agents to announce the arrest of immigrants sought by criminal charges. That included an operation at the Bronx that pushed Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 26. The authorities say it was part of the group of armed men, some affiliates to Aragua’s train, who appeared In Aurora’s video, Colorado.
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