The violent Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua (TDA) is operating in every major city in Tennessee, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Director David Rausch informed Gov. Bill Lee during a budget hearing this week.
Rausch revealed that TDA has reemerged in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga—the state’s four largest cities—after first being detected two years ago during a human trafficking operation.
“We uncovered a group here in a human trafficking operation, and in that operation we recognized a number of the members here trafficking females that they had abducted from Venezuela and brought here,” Rausch said.
Following initial arrests, many gang members fled the state, but they have since returned….