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Several alleged members of the bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua (TdA) were arrested hiding in a New York City apartment building located next to a daycare, a law enforcement source told Fox News, underscoring how the gang has become engulfed among the general. population of the sanctuary city.
He New York Post was the first to report on the Bronx raid: The publication reported that seven suspected members of TdA, which has been terrorizing cities across the country, were arrested inside the apartment building and were wanted on multiple warrants after crossing the border of the United States with Mexico.
The raid on the five-story Bronx apartment building, which is located next to the Doña Juana day care center, took place on December 5 and was carried out by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the federal task force of the NYPD, a police agency. the source tells Fox News. A separate raid was carried out in Brooklyn and 22 suspected gang members were arrested in both raids.
A daycare worker tells Fox News Digital that children were inside the facility when the raid occurred.
VENEZUELAN GANG MEMBERS LINKED TO VIOLENT APARTMENT TAKEOVER ARRESTED IN NEW YORK CITY
The apartment building in the Bronx where 22 alleged members of the Aragua Train were arrested on December 5 (Google maps)
The ruthless gang has taken advantage of a lax southern border under the Biden-Harris administration, with many of its foot soldiers invading the United States and unleashing hell on unsuspecting communities. The gang has been involved in all types of violent crimes, including murders, shooting at police officers, assaults, robberies, and smuggling weapons into migrant shelters.
The alleged gang members were tracked to the Bronx apartment after tracing the ankle monitor of alleged TdA member Jarwin Valero-Calderón to the hideout on the edge of Crotona Park, sources told The Post. Crotona Park is where President-elect Trump held a campaign rally in May.
The NYPD confirmed to Fox News that Valero Calderón was among those who were detained on December 5 on a federal arrest warrant.
According to the Post, Valero Calderón entered the US through Eagle Pass, Texas, in August 2022 and was released with a court date. Meanwhile, he racked up a long rap sheet in several states before he was ordered deported in April, but was still on the loose as of Dec. 5, the Post reports, citing sources.
FILE – A group of 116 illegal immigrants, including 11 unaccompanied children, were detained in Eagle Pass, Texas, in November. (Texas DPS)
Valero-Calderón reported to a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in New York City in September 2022, but then continued his crime spree.
VENEZUELAN MIGRANT GANG TREN DE ARAGUA CURRENTLY OPERATES IN 16 STATES: REPORT
He was arrested twice on larceny charges in New York and New Jersey with a conviction in June 2023. He was also arrested on a separate petit larceny conviction in Nassau County on April 24, 2023, before being arrested in Florida in February for fraud, theft. and resisting arrest, according to the Post.
Other alleged TdA members arrested in the raid, according to the Post, include Ángel Gabriel Márquez Rodríguez, 19, who was arrested in Chicago last year on a larceny charge and then four months later was arrested on larceny charges in New York City and again three months later. later.
Jhonaiker Alexander Gil Cardozo, 24, was also arrested by the NYPD on grand larceny and stolen property charges in July and had two other raids in the Big Apple in June for reckless endangerment and robbery, but was left on the streets .
Last week, New York City Mayor Adams met with incoming border czar Tom Homan and agreed to work with the new Trump administration to root out migrant criminals in the city. Some Democrats responded with opposition.
News of the raids was welcomed by New York City Councilman Joe Borelli of Staten Island.
“This is a gang that set up camp in our city, and it’s out of character for the Democratic Party to be entrenched against the NYPD cooperating with ICE to remove them,” Borelli told Fox News Digital. “They are actively recruiting members among the migrant community and, unfortunately, they spend most of their time terrorizing those same people.”
“Mayor Adams should use all available resources to end the city’s law that prevents the NYPD from cooperating with ICE because it is specific groups like this that make me question the sanity of the people who seek to protect them and ensure that they remain here.
Those comments were echoed by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, RN.Y. who told “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street” that Democrats have been weakening laws to allow illegal immigrants, gangs and criminal organizations to remain in New York and “wreak havoc.”
“It’s good news that we’re hearing Eric Adams change his tune, but, frankly, he has the ability right now, under existing law, to cooperate with Ice’s detention requests for people who are hardened criminals, for felons violent, for sexual offenders,” Malliotakas said. .
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Incoming border czar Tom Homan sits down with New York Mayor Eric Adams. (Courtesy: Office of the Mayor of New York)
Late last month, two members of the violent gang who participated in an armed invasion of an apartment caught on camera in Aurora, Colorado, were captured in New York City.
Denyeer Aramillo Meneses, 23, and Edison Peña Angulo, 25, both photographed in the viral video, were captured in the Bronx by an NYPD and Homeland Security gang task force in a major fraud scam. credit cards and drug trafficking bust.
Fifteen alleged members of the notorious gang were arrested after a six-month investigation into the gang’s crimes that led to a drug trafficking ring, sources told the New York Post.
Fox News’ Christina Coulter contributed to this report.
