Ten alleged members and employees of the bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang tren The Aragua (TDA) have been charged in a massive arms and drug-running operation that included at least six states and said prosecutors that they had plans to expand at an international level To Colombia.
In New York City On Wednesday, the police said that one of the accused violent migrants Gangbangers broke the arm of a NYPD officer after he came into a scuffle during his arrest.
Authorities have seized a cache of 34 illegal weapons, including AR-15-Conservation rifles and a Glock 9mm with a trigger adjustment, making it an automatic, bound to the suspects, said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.
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Katz said that the TDA gang members were also kicking deadly drugs, including Pink Cocaine, a designer Street -Medicijn with a mixture of ketamine, MDMA and Ecstasy.
All ten are migrants – including two women – come from Venezuela and are the land illegal The police said via the southern border.
This subset of the gang was led by two Venezuelan nationals who came to New York City two years ago and prepared a gun-running crew that also consisted of other strangers.
Enyerbert Blanco, 24, the alleged leader, has been in the detention in Florida since October after being charged with a case of human trafficking with a 15-year-old girl, Katz said.
“We claim that as members and employees they have traded weapons and earned money to promote TDA’s agenda and while they want to settle in New York City, we dismantle them individually,” Katz said.
Katz said that the investigation, called Operation Train Derail, started more than a year ago and was carried out by her office and the NYPD.
Five out of 10 are accused of two counts of criminal sale of a firearm and have imprisoned up to 25 years in prison if they are convicted.
The rest is charged differently for possession of firearms and other crimes. They are confronted with a maximum of 15 years in prison. All ten are accused of conspiracy to possess and sell illegal firearms in New York City.
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Four are now in custody in New York City, while four others behind bars are outside the state, including two in Texas And two in Florida. The others are still free. Their illegal operation also included Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Colorado, Katz said.
Katz did not say whether ICE would deport the suspects, insisting that she dealt with the operation as a gun -running matter.
She said the group was brutal in arms trade.
“In one case, the suspect transported an AR-15 wrapped in a black garbage bag for sale in the Bronx County. This purchase took place at 3.45 pm in front of a residential building.”
Five other firearm purchases – between 30 October to 10 December – took place in a target parking park in College Point, in Queens.
The current rate for an attack weapon is $ 2,500 to $ 2,800, while loaded operable pistols are sold between $ 1,200 and $ 1,800, she said.
“This group was very entrepreneurial. They really made sure that this company was run like a clock,” said Katz. “They steel firearms that were proceeds from burglaries and car burglaries from other states. They relied on the use of rental vehicles to stand up and sell the iron pipeline to people in the city of New York. They knew they could make money in the city New York, and they even potentially smuggled them to Columbia because of the success of this research. “
Mugshots of suspected members of the violent Venezuelan tren The Aragua gang appears about an image of weapons from a video that a gang member would have shared on WhatsApp.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that the wounded officer will undergo surgery after this week and that separate charges will be filed.
“TDA is a dangerous transnational gang who specializes in murder, human trafficking and chaos,” said NYPD commissioner Jessica S. Tisch. “The NYPD will always collaborate with our federal and our local partners to bring down international gangs such as TDA, who would destroy this city.”
Some of the accused TDA members are Wallan Meza, 27; Leoner Aguilera, 21; Brayant Aguilar, 21; Rosemary Sanchez, 24; Enyerling Zambrano, 29; Alejandro Rondon, 19, and Oscar Sosa, 31.
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The bust in Queens came a day after immigration -raids in the Bronx that gang member saw Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco26, picked up by Drug Enforcement Administration and US Homeland Security Investigations.
Zambrano-Pacheco is sought by the police in Aurora, Colorado, for burglary in the first degree and threatening with a firearm of an incident on August 18, caught on the camera where the police say that he and five other armed men are being accused of the Break into an apartment under shot.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Name says Fox News that Zambrano-Pacheco is also being sought in part of a weapon weapon exchange and tried to buy grenades. The police say that he has also been accused of kidnapping, extortion and threat.
