Four members of the violent Venezuelan street gang Torren de Aragua are behind bars after a tense eight-hour standoff with police over a $75,000 jewelry heist in Texas. There is.
Dallas police say immigrant thugs followed the woman to her garage on September 21, pistol-whipped her and forced her into her Elsby Street home, where they took valuables inside her Gucci bag. Announced. WFAA-TV News reported.
Authorities later arrested three members of the gang, Yen Breihan Torralba, 20, Alberto Martinez Silva, 34, and Manuel Hernandez Hernandez, 28, but the gang was led by Dallas police and Irving. They barricaded themselves inside the house with a police SWAT team. According to the media, it was deployed outdoors.
Wilmer Colmenares Gonzalez, 27, thwarted police for several hours before being taken into custody Thursday.
Police used surveillance video from the woman's garage and fingerprints from the scene in northwest Dallas to identify and track down the suspect, according to WFAA.
According to FOX affiliate KDFW-TVThe migrants tied up the victims and threatened to cut off their fingers if they did not lead them to expensive jewelry during the robbery.
According to police records reviewed by the department, Hernandez-Hernandez told officers he did not know about his crew and was told that the crew was collecting money from prostitutes who were in debt to the gang. said.
Torren de Aragua was among the millions of asylum seekers who have flooded into Mexico since 2022, sneaking across the border and spreading across the United States.
They lure desperate women into the country, hold them hostage, and force them to sell their bodies until they pay exorbitant smuggling fees to gangs.
The gang has also established roots in the Big Apple, infiltrating city-run immigrant shelters and running gun, drug, robbery rings and sex-trafficking operations, law enforcement officials allege.
