Tren De Aragua - Tren de Aragua (
English: Aragua Train) is the largest criminal organization in Venezuela, with over
2,700 members. In addition to its home-state of Aragua, the organization also has a presence in other states in Venezuela, such as: Carabobo, Sucre, Bolívar, Guárico, Trujillo and Miranda. as early as
2022 - 2024 they have been found in the USA , NYC and Chicago.
much like MS-13 they do not wear gang colors , instead the wear tattoos such as gang member tattoos include the Nike logo of NBA Hall of Famer
Michael Jordan along with his uniform number, 23 — with the number referring to “23 de Enero,” or 23rd of
January, a Venezuelan neighborhood that spawned a revolutionary group in the 1980s.
Other common gang tats include a crown, weapons like AK-47 assault rifles, stars & gas masks.
Some “Tren de Aragua” members wear tattoos with the initials “HJ,” for “Hijos de Dios,” or Sons of God, which can be part of the gang’s lingo, or the phrase “Hasta la Muerte,” or Until
Death, in body ink.
Tren
De Aragua
gang commit crimes
such as protection racketeering, drug-trafficking, human-trafficking, human smuggling, kidnappings-for-ransom, illegal mining, bribery, and money laundering.
New York State National Guard troops are being told to
check all migrants arriving in the Big
Apple for distinctive tattoos linking them to the vicious Venezuelan “Tren de Aragua” street
gang,
Tren de Aragua” — Spanish for Aragua Train, a shout-out to the
gang’s origins as a railroad labor union in Aragua, Venezuela — is growing in numbers in the Big
Apple and has been linked by law enforcement to a recent spree of cellphone robberies, The brutal gang is now firmly on the NYPD’s radar, with the new bulletin warning: “Tren de Aragua’s newly established presence in New York City may incite further gang-related violence — including stabbings, assaults and robberies — raising public safety concerns
