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The repression of the Violent Venezuelan gang Aragua Train (ADD) continues throughout the country, and officials responsible for enforcing the law announced the accusation of eight members accused of multiple federal crimes in Tennessee.
Robert McGuare, the United States Interim Prosecutor for the Middle District of Tennessee, together with agencies from the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (MNPD), the Tennessee (TBI) investigation office, the FBI, security investigations National (HSI) and drug configuration administration. (DEA) announced the details of the accusation during a press conference on Tuesday.
McGuare said the accusation alleges that the eight defendants conspired to transport women from South America to the United States and forced these women to participate in prostitution.
The authorities also claim that trafficking was part of a scheme to promote an illegal prostitution company in the Tennessee middle district.
The Office of the United States prosecutor and the agencies of application of the law in Tennessee announced the accusation of multiple people in the state with links with the Venezuelan gang Train of Aragua. (Left: Obtained by New York Post; Center: Edward Romero; Right: DEA)
“We will not stay and allow TDA or any criminal organization to obtain a fortress in Tennessee. They will not be here. They will not be allowed to commit a crime here. We have hunted these bad actors”, director of TBI David David B. Rausch promised .
“We will dismantle them, and we will work with all the tools we have under the law to hold these violent criminals absolutely responsible for my colleagues Tennesseeos,” Rousch added. “Be sure that this is an ongoing cooperative work that involves our bosses and sheriffs of Tennessee throughout the state. Together, we are working to protect and improve the security of our communities and the voluntary state.”
The authorities announced that three of the defendants were also accused of conspiring to commit sexual trafficking through the use of “strength, fraud and coercion to force their participation in illegal commercial acts.”
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McGuare said that all this was done for the gain of the defendants. The accusation also charges a defendant with illegal possession of weapons by an illegal foreigner.
“As of this morning, all accused defendants are in federal custody,” McGuare said.
The authorities said that the defendants attracted the women of South America with false promises of a better life in the United States, describing how they were intimidated, intimidated and threatened to have sex with strangers for illegal gains.
The accusation also alleges that two of the defendant defendants used their affiliation with ADD to intimidate the victims to continue commit commercial sexual acts, To affirm that “they had debts shot, debts that no person could pay, and that the only way to avoid those debts was to have sex with strangers for money.”
The authorities said they are “committed to working with their partners to successfully investigate and process these atrocious gangs in Tennessee.”
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Before the press conference, the FBI agents of the Houston and Nashville branch, along with HSI officials, arrested three suspects that are believed to be linked to the violent TDA gang in Houston on Tuesday morning.
“FBI Houston and HSI Houston agents helped FBI Nashville to arrest three alleged Aragua train associates in Houston this morning,” wrote the FBI Houston in an X position.
“Those arrested supposedly were part of a TDA sex trafficking ring that threatened and abused the victims.”
The immigration and customs control of the United States (ICE) also announced the arrest of a member of the TDA gang that is suspected that is linked to a massive shooting in Chicago.
According to an ICE spokesman, Ricardo Padillia-Granadillo, 24, a Venezuelan national present illegally, was arrested on February 8 in Raleigh.
Granadillo entered the United States illegally near El Paso, Texas, on October 1, 2022, and the United States border patrol was found in the country and a notice occurred, authorities said. But he did not appear for his immigration appointment scheduled for September 12, 2024, and the United States prosecutor for the West District of Texas issued an arrest warrant.
The law agents, border patrol, customs and air protection marine operations and the US sheriff service arrested Granadillo in a house in Raleigh without incident and found a gun, ammunition and another 10 aliens Venezuelans at home while performing the arrest operation.
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The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than 8,000 immigrants on Wednesday arrested have been released in the United States.
Trump said the Venezuelan government also agreed to accept “all illegal foreigners in Venezuela who were camped in the United States, including members of Aragua train gangs” and pay their flights home.
Adam Shaw and Landon Mion of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer of Fox News Digital and Fox Business. The advice and ideas of history can be sent to stepny.price@fox.com
