Trump scores stunning symbolic victory as feds flush out America’s most notorious criminal migrant hub
Donald Trump’s ‘war’ against illegal migrants has scored a stunning symbolic victory by sweeping through a notorious apartment complex that had been overrun by a violent Venezuelan gang.
After federal agents stormed the complex in Aurora, Denver, the Drug Enforcement Administration said they’d arrested a suspected member of the feared Tren de Aragua.
Footage posted by the DEA shows a handcuffed man being escorted out of The Edge at Lowry apartments in Aurora.
‘DEA/local LEO partners continue hitting streets day/night pursuing drug criminals,’ the DEA said.
‘A suspected member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) was taken into custody in the Denver area overnight. Due to the ongoing investigation, more info may be released later today.’
The takeover of the apartment complex shocked American after security cameras filmed six men armed with guns in the complex brazenly trying to access units in August, 2024.
The takeover became a defining election moment as public anger mounted over America’s porous borders when ABC host Martha Raddatz told JD Vance that ‘only a hand full’ of apartment blocks had been seized by the gang.
‘Martha, do you hear yourself? Only ‘a handful of apartment complexes’ in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’ open border?’, Vance responded.
ICE officials said on Tuesday that they arrested one of the alleged gangsters seen in the footage in New York City.
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 26, is wanted in Colorado on felony warrants and was arrested in the Bronx, according to officials.
The DEA in Colorado said they arrested a suspected member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang overnight at The Edge at Lowry apartments in Aurora
The apartment complex made national news after security cameras filmed six men armed with long guns in the complex and trying to get into units in August, 2024
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem attended Tuesday’s dawn raid and confirmed an an individual with kidnapping, assault and burglary charges was taken into custody.
She shared footage of the swoop on X and vowed to clamp down on ‘dirtbags.’
‘Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets,’ Noem wrote. ‘We are doing this right – doing exactly what President Trump promised the American people – making our streets safe.’
The DEA has been conducting operations in the Denver area as they target undocumented criminals with criminal records.
Drug Enforcement Administration officials found 49 people inside a makeshift nightclub in Adams County on Sunday morning – 41 of which were undocumented migrants.
Federal officials said some of those detained were associated with the violent Tren de Aragua which has been terrorizing the neighborhood.
The early morning raid was conducted alongside officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
‘Drugs, weapons, and cash were seized in Adams County,’ officials said on X.
At least 41 illegal immigrants have been arrested during a raid on a Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang party in Colorado
The early morning raid was conducted alongside officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
‘Nearly 50 illegal aliens were taken into custody.’ The party was ‘invite only’, officials said.
Known as TdA to law enforcement, the gang originated in a Venezuelan prison.
Members of the South American mafia have since crept into the US via the southern border, hidden among the one million Venezuelan migrants fleeing a socialist dictatorship who have entered the country under the Biden administration.
It emerged in December that Tren de Aragua, which has been dubbed the ‘epitome of evil’ and ‘MS-13 on steroids’, is already operating in 18 states.
This includes some of the most remote corners of the America in Colorado, North Dakota, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming. The bloodthirsty criminals also maintain strongholds in major cities across Texas as well as New York and Chicago.
They can often be identified by telltale tattoos, including a train (‘tren’ is Spanish for train), a crown, a clock and an AK-47.
After slipping across the southern border posing as asylum-seekers, gang members infiltrated at least three apartment complexes in the area.
TdA thugs took over vacant apartment units to use a drug and prostitution dens– pimping out migrant women and even children.
Other migrants who lived in those properties were forced to pay the gangsters ‘rent’ or face violence.
