From the New York Post: Federal agents nabbed a migrant Tren de Aragua gang crew holed up in a Bronx apartment — after tracking one of their ankle monitors to the hideout, sources told The Post.
The Dec. 5 raid at an apartment building on the edge of Crotona Park, conducted by a federal task force made up of Homeland Security Investigations and the NYPD, landed seven alleged gangbangers in handcuffs, including a troublesome 28-year-old Venezuelan national who was wearing a court-ordered monitoring device that led the feds to the crew.
“Better late than never,” quipped a law enforcement source who wondered why Jarwin Valero-Calderon was free despite at least three busts, a Nassau County conviction and a federal deportation order.
Law enforcement officials said the gang has recruited inside tax-funded migrant shelters and runs violent theft and robbery crews while peddling drugs, guns and women in the five boroughs.
The report explains that most of the illegal alien TdA gang members busted inside the Bronx apartment had multiple outstanding arrest warrants since crossing the border into the United States.
Jarwin Valero-Calderon, 28, whose ankle monitor led authorities to the gang in the Bronx, entered the US at Eagle Pass, Texas, in August 2022 and was released with a court date. Since then, he has been arrested at least twice in New York, and was ordered deported on April 25, but was still on the loose when he was found on December 5.
Jhonaiker Alexander Gil Cardozo, 24, has four arrests in two states since crossing the border in El Paso in September 2022.
Jesus Manuel Quintero Granado, 30, crossed the border in El Paso in September 2022 with his Peruvian wife and child, then went to Canada. In September 2023, Canada shipped them back to the US and CBP agents at the northern border released them with a pending immigration hearing. Since then, Quintero Granado has racked up four arrests in New York and New Jersey.
Angel Gabriel Marquez Rodriguez, 19, crossed the border into the US in September 2023, and was released with a pending court date. Two months later, he was busted in Chicago for shoplifting, then freed. He went to New York City, where he was arrested twice more on March 30 and June 8.
Fernandez Franco Greymer De Dios, 21, was being processed for deportation after getting caught at the border in May, but was released after claiming “fear of persecution.”
🚨BREAKING: Law enforcement tracked an ankle monitor to a Bronx apartment, leading to the arrest of 22 members of the Venezuelan gang ‘Tren de Aragua.’
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 20, 2024
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