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Ten alleged members and associates of the Venezuelan Blood Gang Train of Aragua (ADD) have been accused of a massive operation of weapons and drugs that cover at least six states and prosecutors said they had plans to expand internationally to Colombia to Colombia .
In New York City On Wednesday, the police said that one of the accused violent migrant gangbangers broke the arm of a New York police officer after he fought during his arrest.
The authorities confiscated a cache of 34 illegal weapons, including the ar-15 assault rifles and a 9 mm glock with a trigger modification, which makes it automatic, linked to suspects, said the Queens district prosecutor, Melinda Katz.
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The photos of the alleged members of the Violent Venezuelan Train Gang of Aragua appear in a blurry image of an arrest of an alleged member of the gang in Denver.
Katz said that members of the TDA gang were also selling mortal drugs, including pink cocaine, a designer street drug that includes a mixture of ketamine, MDMA and ecstasy.
The ten are migrants, including two women, are from Venezuela and entered the country illegally Through the southern border, police said.
This subset of the gang was headed by two Venezuelan nationals who arrived in New York City two years ago and established a team that was also composed of other foreign citizens.
Enyerbert Blanco, 24,, the alleged leader of Timbres, has been in Custody in Florida since October after being accused in relation to a case of trafficking in persons involving a 15 -year -old girl, Katz said.
“We claim that, as members and associates, they trafficked weapons and earned money on the TDA agenda and, while seeking to settle in New York City, we are dismantling them individually,” Katz said.
Katz said the investigation, called Operation Trail, began more than a year ago and was carried out by his office and the New York Police.
Five of the 10 are accused of two criminal sales positions of a firearm and face up to 25 years in jail if they are convicted.
The rest is accused of various positions of possession of firearms and other crimes. They face a maximum of 15 years in prison. The ten are accused of conspiracy to possess and sell illegal firearms in New York City.
Some of the weapons that TDA members were executing, according to prosecutors (Queens Da Office)
Four are now in custody in New York City, while four others are behind bars outside the State, including two In Texas and two in Florida. The others are still loose. His illicit operation also covered Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Colorado, Katz said.
Katz did not say if Ice would deport the suspects, insisting that he was trying the operation as a case of weapons.
She said the group was shameless in treatment.
“In one case, the defendant transported an AR-15 wrapped in a black garbage bag for sale in Bronx County. This purchase occurred at 3:45 pm in front of a residential building.”
Five other firearms purchases, between October 30 and December 10, took place within an target parking lot in College Point, in Queens.
The current rate of an assault weapon is $ 2,500 to $ 2,800, while the loaded operable guns were sold between $ 1,200 and $ 1,800, he said.
“This group was very entrepreneur. They really made sure this business was executed as a clock,” Katz said. “They stole firearms that were profits of theft and car thefts of other states. They trusted the use of rental vehicles to raise the iron pipe and sell them to people in New York City. They were aware that they could do the Money in New York City, and even discussed that they are potentially smuggled in Columbia due to the success of this research. “
The photos of the alleged members of the violent Venezuelan gang Train of Aragua appear on an image of weapons of a video that a member of a gang supposedly shared on WhatsApp.
The New York police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said the injured officer will undergo surgery after this week and will be presented separately.
“TDA is a dangerous transnational gang that has specialized in murders, traffic and chaos,” said New York Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch. “The New York Police will always work with our federal and local partners to eliminate international gangs such as ADD, which would havoc in this city.”
Some of the accused TDA members include Wralllan Meza, 27; Leoner Aguilera, 21; Brayant Aguilar, 21; Rosemary Sánchez, 24; Enyerling zambrano, 29; Alejandro Rondon, 19, and Oscar Sosa, 31.
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The bust in Queens arrived a day after the immigration raids in the Bronx that saw member of the gang Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco26, collected by the administration of drug control and national security investigations of the United States.
Zambrano-Pacheco is sought by the police in Aurora, Colorado, for first-degree robbery and threatened with a firearm of an incident of August 18, caught in the Chamber where the police say that he and five other armed men are accused are accused To break into an apartment at gunpoint.
National security The secretary Kristi Noem tells Fox News that Zambrano-Pacheco is also partly sought from an exchange of weapons of arms and was trying to buy grenades. Police say they have also been accused of kidnapping, extortion and threatening.
