Authorities arrested two members. Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua In Tennessee last week, authorities issued warnings about the resurgence of gangs in the state.
On November 19, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested Luis Alejandro Ruiz-Godoy, who was wanted by INTERPOL on an outstanding warrant. Memphis Police Department said.
ICE transferred the suspect to Louisiana for deportation. No further details about his arrest are available.
On Monday, officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) announced the arrest of four people, including a member of Train D’Aragua, during a sex-trafficking sting last week.
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Tren d’Aragua gang activity has been reported throughout Tennessee. (“Fox and Friends”)
The Tennessee Human Trafficking Task Force received information that led them to a hotel in Hamilton County, where law enforcement confronted the four suspects and confirmed they were part of a hotel. Human sex trafficking operation
The three female suspects — Willimar Herrera Gudez, 29; Rebeca De Los Juarez Lucena, 26; and Yidalbris Marcano Salas, 29 – are charged with prostitution. Salas faces multiple drug-related charges as well as one count of illegal weapons possession.
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The male suspect, 30-year-old Adelos Rodriguez Carmona, was charged with sponsoring prostitution, multiple drug-related charges, and one count of illegal possession of a weapon. is facing TBI investigators determined that Rodriguez-Carmona was a known member of the “Tren de Aragua (TDA)” suspected of committing violent crimes in Chicago and New York City. is.”
“This is part of an active and ongoing investigation and no information is available at this time,” Mike Meyers, public affairs officer for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Nashville, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Four suspects, including a member of Train D’Aragua, have been arrested in a sex-trafficking sting in Hamilton County, Tennessee. (Hamilton County/Valerie Shrimp Hahn/St.Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service)
At the time of his release, he remained in custody at the Hamilton County Jail on a $125,000 bond.
The arrests came in the same week that TBI officials issued an alert about the growing number of TDA members in the state.
“This group has exploited. [the border]TBI Director David RauschFox and Friends” On November 22. “They go from human trafficking to theft to organized retail crime, and then they go into drug dealing, and engage in very violent, bloody battles with the cartels that they’ve had.”
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“The gang is on the move,” Rausch said. Human trafficking operations and expanding other criminal activity in Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Chattanooga. The TBI director added that law enforcement is limited in its efforts to crack down on gang-related activity, particularly if the suspects do not have immigration “prisoners.”
“If we come upon them and they have a prisoner, we can take them into custody. But other than that, we can just monitor and make sure they’re not breaking the law. But it’s a challenge Rausch calls a “cat-and-mouse” game that’s only getting more dangerous.
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Rausch warned. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee during a budget hearing on the resurgence of gangs in Tennessee’s major cities.
Department of Homeland Security Recommended last month. That more than 100 immigrants it identified with possible ties to bloodthirsty Venezuelan gangs would be put on the FBI’s watch list, after the agency totaled more than 600 with possible ties. The flag is planted.
Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.