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Venezuelan Diego Ibarra was arrested in February for presenting his residence card to the police in U.S which turned out to be false. Now, the Public Ministry Georgia claims to have proof that this individual belongs to the feared criminal gang Aragua Trainwhich has extended its range of action to several countries in South America, including Colombia, Chile and Peru, and which already has a presence in the United States.
Diego Ibarra is the brother of José Antonio Ibarraa 26-year-old Venezuelan citizen who was arrested on February 23 as a suspect in the nursing student’s murder Laken Rileycrime that occurred on the campus of University of Georgia (UGA).
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The CNN news network had access to documents from the Georgia Attorney’s Office where as proof of your belonging to the Aragua Train There are a series of photographs of the body of Diego Ibarra29 years old, taken after his arrest on February 23, 2024. In the images you can see that He has a five-pointed crown tattooed on the left side of his neck and five-pointed stars on the right side.
The Georgian Public Prosecutor’s Office maintains that These tattoos would be typical of the members of Trem Aragua.
Additionally, according to CNN, Department of Homeland Security investigators have identified several different social media accounts used by Diego Ibarra in which he can be seen making signs related to the Aragua Train.
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For example, there are photos where you see Diego Ibarra making a gesture with the hand in which he extends the little finger, the index finger and the thumb, and bends the ring and middle fingers.
Other photos show him posing with weapons, the Georgia Attorney General’s Office said.
Diego Ibarra He was arrested for presenting a fake US permanent resident card to police. Agents intervened when looking for the suspect in the student’s murder Laken Riley, who turned out to be his brother.
On Thursday, February 22nd, Laken Riley He ran across campus UGA and didn’t come back. A friend of hers contacted police that same day to report her missing.
Hours later, her body was found in a wooded area of UGA, near Lake Herrick.
UGA Police Chief Jeff Clark said the cause of death was blunt force trauma, but did not provide further details.
José Antonio Ibarrawho lived near the campus in Athens, was arrested on Friday, February 23, and charged with manslaughter, manslaughter, aggravated assault, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping and concealing the death of another person.
According to the Telemundo network, based on official information from immigration authorities, José Antonio Ibarra He entered the United States without documents through Texas on September 8, 2022 and was arrested by immigration agents. But he was released pending the resolution of his legal case.
On September 14, 2023, Jose Ibarra He was arrested by police in New York and charged with “acting in a manner to injure a minor under the age of 17 and a driver’s license violation,” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Jose Ibarra He was released by the NYPD before ICE could issue a detainer.
After Diego Ibarra was arrested, Fox News reported that he had used his fake resident card to work for a time as a dishwasher at UGA.
Diego Ibarra He entered the United States in April last year through El Paso, Texas, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. During his arrest, according to CNN, he tried to bite a Border Patrol member who was trying to subdue him.
His accelerated expulsion was processed, but he claimed a “credible fear of returning to Venezuela”, for which he was released with an asylum request pending resolution.
Then, Diego Ibarra He was arrested several times by police officers. Athensreported federal authorities, according to the AP agency.
In September he was arrested for driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and without a driver’s license. In October, he was arrested for petty shoplifting and in December for “failure to appear for a crime requiring fingerprints.” He was also arrested after a woman called emergency services and She reported him for alleged domestic violence.
Last Tuesday, FBI Deputy Special Agent in El Paso Britton Boydhighlighted that “the Aragua Train It’s in the USA. We already have proof that they crossed the border. “They are crossing and there is a presence.”
According to Diario de las Américas, the agent observed that people linked to the Aragua Train It mixes with groups of migrants seeking asylum as soon as they arrive in the United States, which is why authorities are intensifying security protocols.
At the end of February, Boyd had already told CNN that the FBI was able to confirm the presence of the Aragua Train in the United States through interviews with members of the criminal band after they crossed the border together with others immigrants.
In November 2023, the United States Border Patrol confirmed to CNN that it had detained 38 people who were allegedly part of the Aragua Train.
Boyd further told CNN that federal agencies remain vigilant against the possibility that the Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, aka ‘Niño Guerrero’, reach the southern border of the United States. The criminal is the leader of the Aragua Train and escaped last year from the Venezuelan prison of stump.
“Our main concern is that they can organize cells in the United States, cells like those that already exist in South America,” Boyd told CNN.
Diario de las Américas recalled that some Venezuelans who were involved in violent events in New York and Chicago were accused of being linked to the Aragua Train.
The facts include a number of violent robberies of telephones in the city of New Yorkwhere criminals use mopeds to then escape and steal their victims’ cell phones.
“I think Venezuela is deliberately emptying its prisons and send these people here, like (Fidel) Castro did in the 80s,” former FBI Deputy Director Chris Swecker told Fox News.
Chris Swecker compared what is being seen on the streets of Chicago It is New York with the “crime wave” experienced in South Florida since the so-called Mariel crisiswhen in the 1980s Cuba authorized the departure of citizens on boats via a sea bridge to the United States, but Fidel Castro’s regime infiltrated convicted criminals among the families who were welcomed by their exiled relatives.
He Aragua Train was born from union of workers who worked on the construction of the section of the Venezuelan Railway in 2005who toured the states of Aragua It is Carabobo; hence his name.
Union demanded job losses and extorted contractors in exchange for security. He later expanded his criminal activities. When construction stopped in 2011, the syndicate was already functioning as a criminal gang, according to InSight Crime.
The megaband reached its criminal peak in 2013 after the alias ‘Warrior Boy’ was recaptured and imprisoned in stumpwhere he established alliances with trade unionists.
In Tocoron, Warrior He quickly rose through the prison ranks until he became the “pran”.
In jail ‘Warrior Child’ He had total control and began charging other prisoners a monthly fee for the construction of gyms, swimming pools, playgrounds, restaurants, nightclubs and other works within the prison.
Outside of stumphe Aragua Train has encountered few obstacles to establishing its control and expanding its territory and criminal operations.
‘Warrior Boy’ He recruited criminal gang leaders from the San Vicente neighborhood, located in Maracay, and established another operations center there. One of these bands, known as “The fin”, by the pseudonym of its leader, Kenferson Sevilha Arteagatook full control of the neighborhood.
Thanks to its alliance with this group, the Aragua Train managed to legally establish the Somos El Barrio JK Foundation, a façade through which the organization would begin to acquire capabilities for social control over the community.
Later, during the Chavista government Tareck El Aissami In Aragua, a large part of the state police apparatus was dismantled and San Vicente was converted into one of the known “zones of peace”, territories where the government prohibited the action of security forces. Thanks to this, Trem Aragua consolidated a solid base in the neighborhood.
Today the Aragua Train and the groups under his command are dedicated to extortion, kidnappings, drug trafficking, hired killers, vehicle theft, migrant smuggling and human trafficking in Venezuela and other countries of America.
According to Transparencia Venezuela, the criminal megagang has more than 4,000 members.
Source: Elcomercio
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