Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security worked with the New York Police Department (NYPD) to carry out a raid against a gang house in the Bronx run by Tren de Aragua, a vicious Venezuelan gang.
Law enforcement carried out the December 5th raid at an apartment building near the Bronx’s Crotona Park neighborhood, resulting in the arrest of seven men who authorities believe to be members of the Venezuelan gang. One of those men, 28-year-old Venezuelan national Jarwin Valero-Calderon, was reportedly wearing an ankle monitoring device that allowed the authorities to track him and the others down to their Bronx location.
The bust comes after members of the Venezuelan gang had taken over entire apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, this summer. “We currently have entire complexes under gang control — complexes where staff have been beaten up, they’ve been…
