A brutal Venezuelan street thug who controls the sex trade in South America by branding young women and girls with tattoos behind their ears is exporting his violence to the US, according to reports.
Tren de Aragua, named for the Venezuelan state of Aragua, is now operating in South Florida following the arrest this week of a suspect wanted in a brutal Miami murder, according to reports.
Yurwin Salazar Maita is accused of killing a retired Venezuelan police officer in November outside a hotel near the Miami airport. Miami-Dade authorities said Salazar was linked to the violent gang.
Tren de Aragua is led by Hector Guerrero Flores, a 40-year-old fugitive who controlled drug trafficking and human trafficking while he was incarcerated in one of Venezuela’s maximum security prisons for more than a decade. He fled in September, and his whereabouts are unknown. Arrest warrants in several Latin American countries have been issued for Guerrero, known by his nickname, “El Nino Guerrero.”
Jose Luis Sanchez Valera was found dead in his vehicle outside a Miami hotel in November. Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, is suspected of being behind the crime. Telemundo 51 Poster wanted to show Tren de Aragua gang leader Hector Guerrero, whose gang has appeared in South Florida. Venezuela’s Interior Ministry Yurwin Salazar Maita, an alleged member of Venezuela’s most brutal gang, was arrested earlier this week in Florida in connection with a brutal murder in Miami in November, MiamiDadePD/X
In Florida, a murder investigation linked to the Tren de Aragua began late last year when authorities began investigating the murder of a former Venezuelan police officer who was lured to death by two women, according to reports.
The victim, Jose Luis Sanchez, was persuaded by the woman to go to a hotel near the Miami airport, where suspected gang members robbed and killed him.
The victim was found dead with his hands and feet bound with tape inside the vehicle, according to reports.
Retired Venezuelan policeman Jose Luis Sanchez was baited to death by two women allegedly controlled by the Tren de Aragua gang in South Florida. MiamiDadePD/X Venezuelan authorities stand guard outside the Tocoron prison after gang boss Hector Guerrero escaped in September. AFP via Getty Images
The suspects then ransacked the victim’s apartment, where they found a safe containing gold in the bedroom, according to a report from Telemundo, a Spanish-language network.
Guerrero had been running his criminal enterprise from inside the Tocoron prison, located about 100 miles southwest of Caracas, with the help of his brother Cheison Rover Guerrero and brother-in-law Neomar Antonio Aldana, among others.
The group, suspected of involvement in money laundering and human trafficking, has more than 4,000 members, according to Spanish-language news reports.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
