Eight illegal aliens with ties to Tren de Aragua have been arrested for sex trafficking
crackdown on Violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TDA) continues nationwide, with law enforcement officials announce the indictment of eight members accused of multiple federal crimes in Tennessee.
Robert McGuire, a representation of the Central District of Tennessee, U.S. Attorney for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), FBI, Homeland Security Investigation (HSI), and Drug Enforcement Administration. (DEA) announced details of the indictment at a press conference Tuesday with store leaders.
McGuire said the indictment alleges that all eight defendants conspire to transfer women from South America to the US, and that they will have them engage in prostitution.
Officials also argue that human trafficking is part of a plan to promote illegal prostitutions in the Central Tennessee area.
Tennessee’s U.S. Attorney’s Office and law enforcement have announced the indictment of several people in the state with ties to Venezuela’s gang Tren de Aragua. (Left: Obtained by the New York Post; Center: Edward Romero, Right: DEA)
“We’ll allow TDA or criminal organizations to get their bases in Tennessee and they won’t come here. They’re not allowed to commit crimes here. We’re the ones who are bad actors “We’ll corner the team,” vowed TBI director David B. Rausch.
“We will dismantle them and operate all the tools these violent criminals have under the law that they will absolutely be held responsible for my fellow Tennessee,” Lausch said. added. “Don’t worry, this is an ongoing collaboration work involving the Chiefs and Sheriffs of Tennessee across the state. Together, we are working to protect and improve the safety of our communities and our volunteer nation. Masu.”
Authorities have announced that the three defendants have been accused of conspiring to commit sex trafficking using “power, fraud and coercion” to force them to participate in illegal commercial sexual activity.
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McGuire said this was all done in the interest of the defendant. The indictment also charges one defendant of illegal possession of a gun by an unlawful foreigner.
“As of this morning, all claimed defendants are defending federal custody,” McGuire said.
Officials explain how the defendant invited a woman from South America with a false promise of a better life in the United States and threatened to have sex with a stranger for illegal profits. I stated.
The indictment also argues that the two indicted defendants will use their partnership with the TDA to continue threatening the victims. committing commercial sexual activity, “They claimed, “They were to have sex for money with a spike in debt, debts that people couldn’t pay, and the only way to avoid those debts was to have sex with strangers for money.”
Officials said they are “committed to working with their partners to successfully investigate and prosecute these heinous gangs in Tennessee.”
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Before the press conference, FBI agents from the Houston and Nashville branches, along with HSI officials, arrested three suspects Tuesday morning who are believed to be tied up by violent TDA gangs in Houston. I did.
“FBI Houston agents and HSI Houston supported the FBI Nashville this morning by arresting three suspected Tren de Aragua associates in Houston,” FBI Houston wrote in an X post.
“The people arrested are said to be part of a diverse TDA sex trafficking ring that threatens and abuses the victims.”
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the arrest of members of the TDA gang suspected of being linked to the mass shootings in Chicago.
According to an ICE spokesman, Ricardo Padiglia Granadiro, 24, is an illegally existing Venezuelan citizen and was arrested in Raleigh on February 8th.
Granadilo illegally entered the United States near El Paso, Texas on October 1, 2022, encountered the US Border Patrol, was paroleed to the country and was given notice to appear, officials said. However, he failed to show up for the immigrant appointment scheduled for September 12, 2024, and US lawyers for the Western District of Texas issued an arrest warrant.
Law enforcement officers with ice, border patrols, customs and border patrols arrest Granadilo at their home in Raleigh without incident and find handguns, ammunition and 10 other Venezuelan aliens in their home I did While conducting arrest activities.
White House press chief Caroline Leavitt said Wednesday that more than 8,000 migrants have been arrested since January 20th and since January 20th, more than 8,000 migrants have been arrested as part of a plan to illegally detain and deport immigrants in the country. However, hundreds of those arrested were later released to the United States.
Trump said the Venezuelan government has accepted “all Venezuelan illegal aliens encamped in the US, including gang members of Tren de Aragua” and agreed to pay for their flight homes.
Adam Shaw and Landon Mion of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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