A pair of Tren de Aragua gangbangers tied to a wild Aurora, Colorado condominium invasion have been arrested in a significant NYC drug trafficking and bank card rip-off bust Wednesday that additionally netted an arsenal of lethal assault rifles, The Put up has realized.
Denyeer Aramillo Meneses, 23, and Edison Pena Angulo, 25, have been picked up throughout an early-morning raid within the Bronx by a gang job power led by the NYPD and US Homeland Safety Investigation, in keeping with regulation enforcement sources.
In whole, 15 suspected members of the Venezuelan migrant gang have been nabbed following a months-long investigation into narcotics trafficking and gang violence, the sources stated.
“Enough already with these guys,” one regulation enforcement supply instructed The Put up. “[TDA’s] time is up.”
Meneses and Angulo have been allegedly a part of a gun-toting group of bandits who stormed an Aurora condominium in August in a viral caught-on-camera housebreaking that made nationwide headlines, sources added.
Native police issued warrants for Meneses and Angulo on Oct. 1, in keeping with 9 Information in Denver.
However they in some way made their method to New York Metropolis, the place cops collared them at about 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
That dragnet was the results of a six-month investigation into violent gang crimes that shortly led to the drug ring, which sources say ran from the Bronx to decrease Manhattan.
The group was promoting quite a lot of medication — together with heroin, faux weed and the artificial drug Tussi — and in addition dabbled in bank card fraud and violence, sources stated.
Cops additionally discovered a cache of semi-automatic weapons throughout the raid, together with three assault rifles, two pistols and ammo cans filled with cartridges, sources stated.
It’s unclear what costs the Tren de Aragua suspects face as a result of their federal indictment and the offenses stay sealed.
Within the Aurora case, each Meneses and Angulo have been charged with first-degree housebreaking and menacing with a firearm, in accordance ABC affiliate Denver 7.
Native cops say they and 4 different armed males have been caught on digital camera at The Edge at Lowry Complicated residences on Aug. 18 — simply minutes earlier than one other man, 25-year-old Oswaldo Jose Dabion Araujo, was fatally shot, the outlet stated.
5 of the lads carried handguns, whereas one introduced a rifle as they knocked on two condominium doorways, busted in and threatened the individuals inside, in keeping with cops.
The stunning video emerged after The Put up recognized Venezuelan jail gang “shot-caller” Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino, who had taken half in an assault, then a capturing at one other overrun condominium complicated within the Denver suburb.
That constructing was just lately shut down over code violations, which the house owners stated they couldn’t repair as a result of the gang had taken over the complicated, in keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by The Put up.
“They were first hanging out around the property and creating a bad element that’s constantly there,” an condominium investor stated. “And then they started taking over, quite a few months ago, they started taking over vacant units.”
Aurora, a metropolis of about 390,000 simply east of Denver, has seen an inflow of each migrants and members of the jail gang over the previous few years.
That’s left some terrified — and compelled others to maneuver.
“It’s been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get out of here,” Cindy Romero instructed KDVR this summer season as she moved out of the constructing along with her husband, Edward.
“Every day when we come home, we have to do this every time we go outside to take out the garbage,” Cindy stated, turning every lock.
“Every time we go to bed at night. We have to keep like this so that nobody can kick in the door.”
