Tren de Aragua gang linked to brutal jewel heist in Denver

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Tren de Aragua gang linked to brutal jewel heist in Denver
by: Julian Resendiz

Posted: Aug 5, 2024 / 06:32 PM CDT

Updated: Aug 6, 2024 / 05:54 PM CDT

Feds send alleged Venezuelan gang member to face slew of state charges in Colorado
 
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Federal officials in El Paso have relinquished custody of an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member they say is linked to a violent June 24 jewelry store robbery in Denver.

Homeland Security Investigations special agents in Las Cruces, New Mexico, last week turned over the suspect to Denver County Sheriff’s Department staff for transfer to Colorado. HSI said the man is a Venezuelan national, a member of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization and a “suspect in the June 24 Denver jewelry heist.”

Sources: Suspects in Denver jewelry store heist found in El Paso
 

The brutal robbery caught on video shows several young men posing as clients suddenly turn on the all-female staff and clients. The robbers are seen pulling out guns, pushing open an office door and pistol whipping two women who fall onto on the floor. A young woman can be seen grabbing a baby and running out a back door during the chaos

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/tren-de-aragua-gang-linked-to-brutal-jewel-heist-in-denver/

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Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua eyed in Denver jewelry store robbery as group expands reach across US
By Jennie Taer and Isabel Keane
Published Aug. 7, 2024
 Updated Aug. 7, 2024, 7:25 a.m. ET

 
The violent Tren de Aragua gang, running rife across the Big Apple, is expanding its reach across the US — and is being tied to a brutal Colorado jewelry store heist in which two female staffers were pistol-whipped and threatened with death.

The Venezuelan prison gang was tied to the caught-on-camera Denver heist from June 25 when a suspect, Jean Torres Roman, 21, was arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and turned over to the Denver County Sheriff’s Office last week.

Roman crossed the border illegally in 2023 — but was only identified as a member of Tren de Aragua early last month, Homeland Security sources told The Post.

Torres Roman allegedly carried out the heist along with several others who remain at large, according to Border Report.

https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/violent-venezuelan-prison-gang-tren-de-aragua-allegedly-linked-to-denver-jewelry-store-robbery-as-groups-nationwide-presence-expands/