The performance on the Violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TDA) continues throughout the country and law enforcement officials announced the indictment of eight members accused of several federal crimes in Tennessee.
Robert McGuire, the acting lawyer of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee, together with office leaders of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), FBI, DRUGE INVESTIGIATIONS (HSI) Enforcement Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration (DEA) announced the details of the indictment during a press conference Tuesday.
McGuire said that the indictment claims that all eight defendants consecrated to transport women from South America to the United States and forced those women to enter into prostitution.
Civil servants also claim that human trafficking was part of an arrangement to promote an illegal prostitution company in the middle district of Tennessee.
The office of the American lawyers and law enforcement agencies in Tennessee announced the indictment of several people in the state with ties with the Venezuelan gang of the Aragua. (Left: obtained by New York Post; Center: Edward Romero; Right: Dea)
“We will not be ready and TDA or allow a criminal organization to get a stronghold in Tennessee. They will not be here. They are not allowed to commit crime here. We will hunt for these bad actors,” TBI -Director David B. Rausch promised.
“We will dismantle them, and we will collaborate with every tool that we have under the law to keep these violent criminals absolutely responsible for my colleague Tennesseans,” Rausch added. “Rest assured, this is a constant cooperative work in which our Tennessee leaders and sheriffs are involved in the entire state. Together we work on protecting and improving the safety of our communities and the volunteer state.”
Officials announced that three of the defendants were also accused of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by “using strength, fraud and coercion to force their participation in illegal commercial sexual acts.”
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McGuire said this was all done for the wins of the defendants. The indictment also accuses a suspect of illegal possession of weapons by an illegal alien.
“From this morning all accused defendants are in federal detention,” said McGuire.
Officials said that the defendants lured women from South America with false promises of a better life in the US, who describe how they were bullied, intimidated and threatened to have sex with strangers to illegal profit.
The indictment also claims that two of the accused defendants used their connection with TDA to intimidate the victims to continue commit commercial sexual acts, Claiming: “They had upright debts, debts that no one could ever pay, and that the only way to avoid those debts was to have sex with strangers for money.”
Civil servants said they “are dedicated to work with their partners to successfully investigate and continue these horrible gangs in Tennessee.”
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Prior to the press conference, FBI agents from the Branch Houston and Nashville, together with HSI officers, arrested three suspects who are assumed to be bound to the violent TDA gang in Houston on Tuesday morning.
“FBI Houston Agents and HSI Houston have assisted FBI Nashville to arrest three suspected TREN The Aragua employees in Houston this morning,” wrote FBI Houston in a message about X.
“Those who were arrested would participate in a TDA-sex trade ring with several states that threatened and abused victims.”
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also announced the arrest of a TDA gang member that is suspected of being linked to a massive shooting in Chicago.
According to an ICE spokesperson, Ricardo Padillia-Granadillo, 24, became an illegally present Venezuelan National, arrested on 8 February in Raleigh.
Granadillo came into the US illegally at El Paso, Texas, on October 1, 2022, and was met by the American border patrol, in the country in the country and a notification to appear, said civil servants. But he did not show up for his immigration appointment planned for September 12, 2024, and the American attorney for the Western district of Texas issued an arrest order.
Legal enforcement officers with ice, border patrol, customs and border protection Air and Marine Operations and the US Marshals service arrested Granadillo in a house in Raleigh without incidents and found a gun, ammunition and 10 other Venezuelan Aliens in the house in the house in the house During the performance of the arrest process.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that more than 8,000 immigrants have been arrested since 20 January as part of Trump’s plan to hold and deport immigrants in the country, although hundreds of arrested have since been released into the US
Trump said that the Venezuelan government also agreed to accept “all illegal alien creatures of Venezuela who are camped in the US, including gang members of Tren de Aragua,” and to pay their flights home.
Adam Shaw and Landon Mion from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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