Feds Charge Thirty Tren de Aragua Gang Members with Drug Dealing, Murder-for-Hire, and Illegally Owning Guns That Americans Should Own

Are you listening to yourself, Martha?

Thirty alleged members and leaders of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang designated as a foreign terrorist group, were indicted in Colorado on charges including murder-for-hire, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses.

The gang has been tied to murder, extortion, kidnapping, and drug and human trafficking.

Several TdA members are accused of unlawfully entering the U.S. and introducing its gang violence to communities across America, including those in Colorado.

"These defendants include Tren de Aragua leaders, members, and associates," U.S. Attorney for Colorado Peter McNeilly said during a press conference on Monday. "The charges include firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, and a barbaric murder for hire plot in which several of the defendants agreed to kill two people for $15,000 and return their severed heads as proof of the murders for just an extra $5,000."

A nine-month investigation tied to crime at a Denver-area apartment complex led a grand jury to charge 28 people in a 39-count indictment.

Charges include firearms trafficking, using guns in drug crimes, illegal possession of firearms and drug trafficking.

Five defendants also face conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.

"The charges tell a story of people selling guns and drugs -- lots of them," McNeilly said. "The affidavits which have been filed in this case also tell a story of a murder-for-hire plot and other crimes that the defendants were willing to commit, such as sex trafficking.

"One of the people who offered to commit murders in this case bragged to the undercover officers that the people he would use to commit those murders were the very same people that we had seen committing crimes on the news in these apartment complexes in Aurora," he continued.

During the investigation, officers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recovered 69 firearms, including machine guns. Authorities claim that several of the firearms have been linked to shootings, carjackings, robberies and drive-by shootings in Denver and Aurora.

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ATF Special Agent in Charge Brent Beavers said during the press conference that some of the firearms recovered were privately made, adding that at least one was equipped with a machine gun conversion device.

Also, a chainsaw bayonet.

The left claims it's bothered by guns. It's not. It's bothered by law-abiding American citizens (aka Republicans) owning guns.

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In a separate indictment, Luis Fernando Uribe-Torrealba and Luis Henriquez-Charaima, both 29, face six counts including murder-for-hire, carjacking, and trafficking drugs and firearms.

Flashback: Martha Raddatz of ABC "News" claimed that there was no Tren de Aragua problem in Colorado, because they had taken "only a handful" of American apartment buildings.

Semi-Related: El Salvador's president posted this video last month of Tren de Aragua gang members boarding the US flight to CECOT prison in pristine health, only to pretend to have suffered a complete collapse during the five hour flight.

I voted for this.

Actually, some of this I didn't even vote for, because I didn't believe it was realistically a possibility.

But now that I've got it, I love it.

posted by Ace at 05:39 PM

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