First in Fox: The Department of Justice is accusing a high -ranking member of the Aragua about terrorism and international drug distribution positions: the first time the United States government is using terrorism charges to process a member of the violent gang.
Fox News Digital Digital, who accused José Enrique Martinez Flores, also known as “Chuqui”, also obtained an accusation of five positions of overcoming five positions, and was first obtained by Fox News Digital, which accuses José Enrique Martínez Flores, also known as “Chuqui”, with conspiracy to provide material support.
The Venezuelan government uses the Tren El Aragua train as representatives to undermine the public security of the United States, according to the Evaluation of the FBI.
Flores is supposedly a high -ranking member of Aragua, who supposedly serves as head of Plaza in Bogotá, Colombia. It is supposedly part of the internal train circle, Aragua’s leadership, has learned Fox News Digital.
Flores was also accused of conspiracy and distribution of cocaine in Colombia aimed at distribution in the United States.
The United States Attorney General, PAM Bondi, announces the sentence of the members of the gangs involved in four homicides, on Friday, April 4, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
“TDA is not a street gang: it is a highly structured terrorist organization that left the roots in our country duration of the previous administration,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi to Fox News Digital. “Today’s positions represent a turning point in how this justice department will process and finally dismantle this evil organization, which has destroyed US families and poisoned our communities.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, told Fox News Digital to train the Aragua is a “violent arm of the Maduro regime that operates inside our borders.”
“With the thesis positions, we are using all the available tools to confront them as the transnational threat they are,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “From drug trafficking and human smuggling to brutal violence, this group has inflicted chaos to US communities.”
Patel added: “Today’s accusation is a critical step to dismantle his network and hold his members hold.”
Colombian authorities arrested Flores in Colombia on March 30, in accordance with a provisional trial of an arrest warrant that the United States had been requesting.
The State Department of State Trump appointed the Aragua Train as a foreign terrorist organization and a global terrorist specifically designated on February 20.
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, joined the right by the director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, answers the questions while the Senate Intelligence Committee celebrates its worldwide threat audience on Tuesday, March 25. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
“This is the first time that the DOJ has used terrorism charges to process TDA members,” said Fox News Digital Department official. “The designation of President Trump’s foreign terrorist organization means that we have a more complete set of legal options to use against thesis groups.”
The accusation occurs after the Trump administration presented its first extortion positions, also known as Rico positions, which include conspiracy to commit murder, sex trafficking, aggression, de facto drugs and more against train to the members of Aragdy.
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That case was part of “Operation Take Back America”, which is a “national initiative that brings together the complete resources of the Department of Justice To repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of posters and transnational criminal organizations (TCO), and protect our communities from violent crimes perpetrators. “
The charges filed against 27 alleged current and previous train members, the members of Aragua, include human smuggling, sex trafficking and murder.
The United States Prosecutor’s Office for the South District of New York said that 21 of the 27 alleged gangs and associate members are currently in federal custody. The statement said that 16 were already in federal criminal, immigration or state custody, and five were arrested in recent days.
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The accusation also occurs after Fox News Digital reported exclusively that the FBI evaluates that Venezuelan government officials “probably facilitate” the migration of the members of the violent gang Aragua train From Venezuela to the United States to advance the objective of Maduro’s regime to undermine public security in the United States