Two suspected members of Torren de Aragua were arrested while on the run with two young children after they allegedly killed a man in a hotel room in Stamford, Connecticut, police said.
Venezuelan immigrants were arrested in Rensselaer, New York, on the run after they allegedly murdered and robbed a 59-year-old man in Connecticut.
Rensselaer Police Department, New York; arrested Authorities say Gregory Marlin Galindez-Torias, 24, and Moises Alejandro Condro-Urvaneja, 22, stole credits from an Amtrak station on Wednesday with their children, ages 1 and 3. He said he tried to use the card.
Just 250 miles away at the Super 8 Hotel in Stamford, Trias and Urbaneja allegedly shot Angel Samaniego in the chest and killed him two days earlier, then fled in the victim's car. According to the Stanford Advocate.
New York police not only linked two undocumented immigrants to the Stamford murders, they also linked them to Venezuela's violent prison organization TdA.
“Our investigation revealed that both parties are in the country illegally from Venezuela,” the Rensselaer Police Department said in a statement.
“Both parties are believed to be connected to the Venezuelan transnational criminal organization Torren de Aragua.”
Members of the brutal Venezuelan prison gang have committed crimes in multiple U.S. states, including New York, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Illinois, California, Wisconsin, Florida, and Georgia, where they have shot dead police officers and smuggled guns. , human trafficking of women, etc. He immigrated for sex and committed a violent robbery.
Rensselaer Police Chief Warren Familietti told the Post that Torren de Aragua has not yet established a permanent presence in the city of 9,200 people, but he is concerned that it might. spoke.
“I think it's clear that that network is expanding and we're starting to see these groups in places we've never seen them before. So could it end here? Certainly But has that happened yet? No, everything is temporary now.”
Famiglietti said the area has seen a recent increase in migrant arrivals, but the city is not equipped to handle it.
“This is an issue we haven't really dealt with before. We're a small city, 3.3 square miles, so that's a concern. We have 10,000 residents. We don't have a lot of resources, so we're worried about that. We rely heavily on county resources, which are not always available,” Famiglietti said.
“So we often don't have the resources that people need. So, is this alarming to me? Absolutely. Just because we can't provide certain resources. ”
ICE took both suspects into custody, according to the Rensselaer Police Department.
Trias crossed the border Urbaneja was located near Fort Brown, Texas, in 2022 and was quickly released by federal immigration authorities, but according to Fox News, Urbaneja was “100% Tren de Aragua.” It is believed he sneaked in as a tagged “fugitive”.
The two children, one a U.S. citizen and the other Venezuelan, were turned over to Child Protective Services, according to the Stanford Advocate. Trias referred to the two children in court as “my children.”
The murder suspects extradited to Connecticut They were charged with theft, escape and identity theft and are being held on $2 million bail each, Stamford police said.
