Eight alleged members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang have been arrested, FBI Director Kash Patel announced at a July 1 news conference, adding that U.S. law enforcement has arrested around 29,000 violent gang members and disrupted and dismantled roughly 2,700 gangs nationwide since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The eight illegal immigrants from Venezuela have been slapped with kidnapping and murder charges in two separate cases from Texas and Illinois, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at the conference.
In the Texas incident, which occurred outside Dallas in 2024, four people killed a man and kidnapped his 13-year-old daughter and 12-year-old nephew. Five alleged TDA members have been charged in this incident. Three of the accused are already in U.S. custody for other crimes, while one is being held in Colombia….