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The crackdown of Venezuelan gangster Tren de Aragua (TDA) continues nationwide, with law enforcement officials announcing prosecution of eight members, accused of multiple federal crimes in Tennessee.
Robert McGuire, acting attorney in Central Tennessee, and from the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (MNPD), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), FBI, Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) The agency leader (DEA) of the drug enforcement administration department announced details of the indictment at a press conference Tuesday.
McGuire said the indictment all eight defendants conspired to transport the women from South America to the United States and forced them to engage in prostitution.
Officials also claimed that trafficking is part of a plan to promote illegal prostitution businesses in central Tennessee.
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Tennessee’s U.S. Attorney’s Office and law enforcement agencies announced the state has ties to Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. (Left: Obtained by the New York Post; Center: Edward Romero; Right: DEA)
David David David, director of TBI, “We will not accompany TDA or any criminal organization to obtain strongholds in Tennessee. They will not be here. They will not allow them here.” Crime. We will hunt down these bad actors.” B. Rolls vowed.
“We will remove them and we will use every tool set by the law to keep these violent criminals totally accountable to my Tennessees,” Rausch added. “Rest assured, this is an ongoing collaborative effort involving us in Tennessee,” he added. State chiefs and sheriffs throughout the state. We work together to protect and improve the security of our communities and volunteer countries.”
Officials announced that the three defendants were also charged with conspiracy to engage in sexual trafficking by using “force, fraud and coercion to force them to engage in illegal commercial sexual acts.” ”
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McGuire said it was all about making the defendant’s profit. The indictment also accused of illegal possession of a firearm of an illegal foreigner.
“As of this morning, all the accused were in federal custody,” McGuire said.
Officials say the defendants lured women from South America in the United States with false promises, describing how they were bullied, intimidated and threatened to have sex with strangers in illegal profits.
The indictment also noted that the two accused defendants used their affiliation with TDA to intimidate the victims to continue their commercial sexual activities, claiming that “they have skyrocketing debts and no one can repay debts, which is the only way to avoid these debts. It’s about having sex with strangers.”
Officials said they were “committed to working with their partners to successfully investigate and prosecute these outrageous gangs.”
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FBI agents from Houston and Nashville branches joined HSI officials to arrest three suspects, who are believed to be associated with the violent TDA gang in Houston.
“FBI Houston Agents and HSI Houston arrested three alleged Tren de Aragua Associates in Houston this morning,” the FBI wrote in an article on X.
“The person arrested is allegedly part of the multi-state TDA sex trafficking ring that threatened and victims.”
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has also announced the arrest of a member of the TDA gang, who is suspected of being associated with a mass shooting in Chicago.
Ricardo Padillia-Granadillo, a 24-year-old Venezuelan national, was arrested in Raleigh on February 8, according to an ICE spokesman.
Granadillo illegally entered the United States near El Paso, Texas on October 1, 2022 and was encountered by the U.S. Border Patrol and was paroled to the site. Officials said and issued a notice. But he failed to show up, with an immigration appointment scheduled for September 12, 2024, and U.S. attorneys in the western Texas area issued an arrest warrant.
Ice, Border Patrol, Air and Marine Operations Enforcement Officers of Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Marshals arrested Granadillo in a house in Raleigh without any accidents.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that more than 8,000 immigrants have been arrested since January 20, as part of Trump’s plan to detain and deport immigrants in the country, although there have been several Hundreds of arrested people have been released back to the United States.
Trump said the Venezuelan government also agreed to accept “all illegal Venezuelan foreigners camped in the United States, including members of the gang of Tren de Aragua” and pay for their flight home.
Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw and Landon Mion contributed to the report.
Stepheny Price is a writer at Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com
