OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
5:40pm – Friday, December 20, 2024
Federal agents arrested members of the Torren de Aragua gang who took over a Bronx apartment after tracking an illegal alien's ICE ankle monitor GPS to an apparent “hideout,” according to law enforcement officials who spoke to reporters. I was arrested.
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On Dec. 5, a federal task force made up of Homeland Security Investigations and the New York Police Department raided an apartment building in the suburbs of Crotona Park.ththey located and handcuffed seven suspected gang members, including Jarwin Valero Calderon, a 28-year-old Venezuelan national who was wearing court-ordered monitoring devices.
It is unclear why police officials have refrained from disclosing the details to the press until now.
“Better late than never,” said one law enforcement official, despite at least three arrests, a conviction in Nassau County and a federal deportation order for Jarwin Valero-Calderon. said he did not know why he was released.
“What does supervised release actually look like?” the source asked. “The important thing about ankle monitors is that you have to actually monitor them to be effective.”
But the raids are a severe blow to TdA, a violent group that has taken advantage of Biden-Harris' relaxed border policies and established strongholds after trespassing in New York, Colorado and other parts of the United States. Ta. From 2022 onwards, the number of other “asylum-seeking migrants” will increase rapidly.
Law enforcement officials say the gang recruits other members inside taxpayer-funded immigrant shelters to participate in illegal activities such as theft, sex trafficking, and drug and weapons smuggling. It is said that there is.
“What we're seeing is an evolution of Torren de Aragua, and they're moving into these sanctuary cities,” said former Denver ICE Commissioner John Fabricatore. “They start consolidating themselves and then they throw out their tentacles in multiple other places where they think they can continue to make money.
“I think people are finally starting to realize how bad the situation is,” he continued.
Most of the gang members arrested inside the Bronx apartment were reportedly wanted on multiple warrants after illegally entering the United States from Mexico, law enforcement officials said.
One of them, Jonaiker Alexander Gil Cardozo, 24, crossed the border in El Paso in September 2022 and had been arrested “at least four times in two states.” Cardozo was previously arrested by the New York City Police Department in July on charges of grand larceny and other thefts, officials said. In June, he was arrested for robbery and reckless endangerment in two separate incidents in New York City. June 28ththHe was arrested again on suspicion of shoplifting in Greenville, South Carolina.
TdA's “top leader” Jesus Manuel Quintero Granado, 30, entered Canada in September 2022 with his “Peruvian wife and child” across the border near El Paso. But officials also said Canadian authorities rejected the family's asylum claim in September 2023 and sent them back to the United States, where they were released by northern border officials pending their case in immigration court. Quintero Granado, who was arrested four times in New York and New Jersey, quickly established himself as an undesirable figure to authorities, sources noted. He was first arrested for shoplifting in Paramus on Aug. 18.thHe was arrested in 2023 and later arrested by the NYPD in July on charges of grand larceny and possession of stolen property.
Angel Gabriel Marquez Rodriguez, 19, was also arrested after a Dec. 5 Bronx police operation.th. He was released pending a court date after illegally crossing the border in September 2023, officials said. Despite this, he still broke the law in Chicago two months later, was arrested, and then released. Chicago is a city of “sanctuary.” November 3rdrdIn 2023, Rodriguez was taken into custody in Chicago on suspicion of shoplifting. He was arrested on March 30th on suspicion of theft.th and June 8thth He is still on the run in New York City.
Another immigrant gang member captured during the operation, Fernández Franco Gleymar de Dios, 21, was in deportation proceedings after being arrested at the border in May. Despite this, he told authorities he feared deportation and was released pending trial, but disappeared and was given a deportation order in absentia on November 20, according to sources.th. It is unclear why authorities trusted him enough to release him to the public.
Valero-Calderon, an immigrant fugitive whose ankle monitor helped federal agents spot the gang, had been on the run from the law multiple times before the Bronx raid. In August 2022, Valero-Calderon illegally entered the United States via Eagle Pass, Texas, and was released with a court date. He turned himself in to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York City the following month, officials said, and had a long criminal history of his own. Following a subsequent theft conviction in Nassau County on April 24th.thRecords show he was arrested twice on theft charges in New York and New Jersey and was convicted in June 2023. Valero-Calderon then failed to show up for a mandatory check-in with immigration authorities and was listed as a fugitive. However, he managed to remain on the run despite being arrested in Florida on February 17th.th2024 for fraud, theft and resisting arrest. April 25ththwas ordered to be deported, but as of December 5th,thhe was still on the run.
Federal immigration authorities recognized all illegal immigrants as TdA members.
The gang and its juvenile chapter, the Diablos de la 42 (Devils of 42nd Street), have been on the radar of the New York City Police Department in recent months due to a spate of robberies in Times Square. Despite having alarming rap sheets, young “terrorists” (some as young as 11) are taking advantage of the state's weak juvenile detention and criminal justice laws to stay on the streets. There is.
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