Tren de Aragua gang members arrested in police raid at Texas apartment complex

Multiple members of Tren de Aragua (TDA) were arrested Saturday aft constabulary in Texas raided a vacant flat analyzable that the convulsive Venezuelan pack was "in power of" and utilizing to perpetrate crimes, authorities said.

Law enforcement agencies conducted the raid aft receiving aggregate complaints astir narcotics violations, quality trafficking and threats to flat unit astatine the complex, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters astatine a quality conference.

"We had accusation that members of the transnational pack Tren de Agua were successful power of the country and committing assorted crimes," McManus said.

Authorities cleared astir 300 vacant apartments astatine the analyzable and arrested 19 of 20 individuals taken into custody. McManus said 15 of those individuals had detainers and respective had confirmed warrants. 

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San Antonio Police Chief William McManus confirmed that 4 of the individuals arrested were members of Tren de Aragua. (KAAB)

McManus said 4 of those taken into custody were confirmed to beryllium members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua, adding that 1 acted arsenic an enforcer for the convulsive gang.

McManus said the cognition was carried retired by San Antonio police, the Texas Anti-Gang Unit, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the FBI, Border Patrol and the Department of Home Security. ( Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images, File)

The 4 TDA members are presently successful the custody of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the main said.

The pack was known to beryllium operating successful the country for "several months," according to McManus, and the probe into the amerciable enactment had been ongoing for weeks.

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"We guarantee the assemblage and members of the nationalist that we are committed to their information and we are connected apical of this TDA contented that seems to person go precise nationalist lately," the main said.

McManus told reporters that instrumentality enforcement has "other places we are going to hit" to rout retired the convulsive gang.

"We’re connected to you, and we’re coming for you," the constabulary main said. "We cognize wherever you are and we’re coming for you."

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Authorities said the probe is ongoing.