Texas police raid apartment complex taken over by Tren de Aragua gang members, making 20 arrests

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Texas police raid apartment complex taken over by Tren de Aragua gang members, making 20 arrests

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| 10/05/24 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 2024-10-05 21:53:22 PDT Through Libloather

Texas police have raided a vacant San Antonio apartment complex that had fallen under the “control” of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang, which used the building as a base for crime, officials said.

A multi-agency task force cleared more than 300 vacant units in the Palatia Apartments on the city’s north side Saturday morning, San Antonio Police Chief McManus told reporters at a news conference.

SAPD had received several complaints from the apartment complex regarding narcotics, human trafficking and threats against apartment staff, according to police.

“We had information that members of the transnational gang Tren de Agua were in control of the area and were committing several crimes,” McManus said.

Twenty people were arrested, four of whom were confirmed members of Tren de Agua – including one person who is an “enforcer,” he said.

Nineteen of those arrested were charged. Several of those arrested had confirmed arrest warrants, officials said.

The apartments were searched by a joint team of officers from SAPD, Texas Department of Public Safety, Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Customs and Border Protection, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and Homeland Security Investigations.

The arrests come after a weeks-long investigation as part of SAPD’s “Operation Aurora” initiative, which is part of a broader effort to disrupt Tren de Aragua’s influence in Texas.

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TOPICS: Business/Economics; Conspiracy; Health/medicine; Local news
KEYWORDS: apartment; crime; gangs; operationaurora; raid; sanantonio; Texas; trendearagua

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