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Venezuelan Gang Members Assault Police Officers – Intercessors for America

We recently reported on the danger posed to U.S. citizens by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Now, two members from that gang were involved in a brutal assault on two police officers.

From Daily Mail. At leas two of the those charged with the brutal beating of two cops in Times Square have been identified as alleged members of a notorious Venezuelan gang.

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Wilson Juarez, 21, and Kelvin Servita-Arocha, 19, have been charged in the attack that happened last month.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have since confirmed that the two men allegedly belong to the Tren de Aragua gang. …

Juarez and Arocha were picked up by agents inside a Bronx apartment after cops executed a warrant for another migrant wanted in connection with the attack.

Arocha was arrested on and ICE warrant and will have his custody status re-evaluated.

Juarez was picked up on a deportation order from a judge in El Paso, Texas, issued one year ago, according to the Post.

Earlier this month, a senior FBI agent said that Tren De Aragua could join forces with one of Latin America’s most feared armed group in New York City.

Special Agent John Morales said the agency is concerned that the gang could link up with the notorious MS-13.

El Tren de Aragua is less well known than the Mexican cartels or Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, which was born in a LA prison in the 1980s.

The gang has been allowed to flourish under the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, expanding to Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Chile. …

Border Patrol detained at least 41 Tren de Aragua members attempting to cross the border between October 2022 and September 2023.

Emerging in 2012, the name means ‘Aragua Train,’ a reference to a train workers’ union in the Aragua state in Venezuela. …

Arocha and Juarez are two of the eight migrant suspects who are said to have attacked the two cops in Times Square.

The two officers in the incident, Lieutenant Ben Kurian and Officer Zunxu Tian, are said to have suffered lacerations, bruising and substantial shoulder pain.

Five of the suspects, including Juarez and Arocha, were released without bail, the others included Yorman Reveron, 24, Jhoan Borada, 22, and Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19.

They had all been charged with assault on a police officer and obstructing governmental investigation. …

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(Excerpt from Daily Mail. Photo Credit: MattGush/Getty Images via Canva Pro)

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