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An alleged member of the Venezuelan gang Tren from Aragua who was wanted in the accusations of Aurora, Colorado, was arrested on Tuesday morning during a federal immigration repression in New York.
Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 26, was arrested in the Bronx early on Tuesday by the Drug Encompement Administration and the US inquiries on internal security, police announced. He was wanted for a burglary and a threatening crime for an incident in an apartments in Aurora last August which was captured on the camera, according to the Aurora police service.
Zambrano-Pacheco was accused of possession of a firearm and ammunition while he was fugitive, according to court documents deposited before the Federal Court of Manhattan. He risks up to 15 years in prison if he is found guilty of this accusation, according to a statement from the American prosecutor’s office for the South New York district.
His lawyer, Jacqueline Cistaro, refused to comment on the case on Wednesday.
He is a high -ranking member of the Tren of Aragua gang, according to a source of responsibility for the law with knowledge of the operation. Arrest was part of a series of immigration application measures targeting the alleged gang members, according to the source.
Kristi Noem, the newly installed internal security secretary, Kristi Noem, accompanied the police on scanning and posted several times on her X account. The very publicized judgment occurs at least two agencies Who help us with immigration officials with sweeping have told their staff to ensure that their clothes clearly represent their respective agency in the event that journalists films them, according to operations in CNN, sources familiar with operations. All this adds to the fact that the chief analyst of the CNN media, Brian Stelter, described as an “expulsion television”.
Zambrano-Pacheco is one of the more than 4,000 people placed in police custody in the past four days as part of the rapid repression of the Trump administration against undocumented immigrants across the United States. This group of people includes a number with serious criminal convictions or accusations, including members of the Aragua Gang Tren in New York and Atlanta.
Ten alleged and associates of the transnational gang were charged with firearm traffic in New York, officials announced on Wednesday. They were appointed in an indictment of 120 counts and accusations of face, in particular the criminal sale of a firearm, the criminal possession of a weapon and a conspiracy, according to the prosecutor of the district of Queens Melinda Katz .
The detectives recovered 34 cannons, including two assault rifles and 48 grams of a drug concoction known as “pink cocaine” after a long -term infiltrated investigation, Katz said in a press release. Many firearms, with prices ranging from $ 1,200 to $ 2,800, were “sold in broad daylight”, including in a shopping center car park, according to prosecutors. The Venezuelan gang operation has spread “with regard to Texas and Colorado, with plans to develop in Colombia,” the statement said.
Immigration sweeping also led to the border tsar Tom Homan called “collateral arrests”, a bloody word for the arrest and detention of men and women from other countries without any locker judicial.
The counting of arrests represents a significant increase in the Biden administration, which reached an average of 300 immigration arrests per day during the financial year completed October 2024.
Zambrano-Pacheco was wanted on Aurora’s mandate on two crime counts from an August 18 incident captured on a security camera, in which six armed men hit the doors in an apartments complex, A indicated the police. Oswaldo’s mortal shooting Jose Dabion Araujo, 25, occurred about 10 minutes later, police said.
The images of the security camera have spread on social networks, and Donald Trump mentioned on Aurora as he presented himself to the presidency, saying that immigrants were violently taking the buildings of the city, in the of his commitment to suppress undocumented immigration.
The police used the mobile phone location data to follow Zambrano-Pacheco in a three-bedroom apartment in the Bronx Tuesday morning, according to the criminal complaint.
The police found Zambrano-Pacheco and his girlfriend in a room, where they discovered a pistol loaded with nine towers in a drawer nearby, depending on the complaint. Zambrano-Pacheco denied having the weapon or knowing that he was inside the play, according to court documents.
According to prosecutors, Zambrano-Pacheco was sentenced to an appearance before the court, according to the prosecutors. Its hearing is scheduled for February 28, according to court documents.
More than five months after Aurora’s incident, five of the six men are now in detention and the sixth is wanted, police said.
Two were arrested in the Bronx during a working group operation on November 27, police announced.
Another was arrested in December in Aurora for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a couple married by undocumented immigrants in the same apartments, the police announced. This incident was “undoubtedly a gang incident”, and the authors and victims are Venezuelan immigrants, said police chief Todd Chamberlain.
Zambrano-Pacheco’s mandate was issued as part of “Safe Haven Operation”, an Aurora police working group set up to investigate the crimes involving the migrant community, police announced.
About 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States, the latest estimates by the Pew Research Center indicate.
The Trump administration aims at each of the 25 ice offices to make at least 75 arrests per day, according to two sources.
“The figures you have mentioned are a floor, not a ceiling,” the Deputy Chief of the White House, Stephen Miller told CNN. “The objective is to stop at least as much, but I hope that much more, and the Ministry of Justice will be closely involved in the supply of the workforce to help achieve these objectives.”
John Sandweg, the former ICE interim director in the Obama administration, told Laura Coates of CNN that he feared that the pressure to accumulate a large number of arrests could lead to intense tactics.
“What I am very interested in seeing is in the coming weeks as these target lists run out – because they lack easy choices of people related to the criminal justice system – what operational tactics will use this nourish the Machine fact that Trump administration built? He said.