DALLAS — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested three Tren de Aragua gang members wanted by the HSI Dallas Violent Gang Task Force and the Farmers Branch (Texas) Police Department for the alleged murder of 33-year-old Nilzuly Enrique Arneaud-Petit.
ERO Denver arrested Carl Luis Zambrano-Bolivar, 26, and Jhonata Nahin Toro Gonzalez, 22, Sept. 26 in Aurora, Colorado. Ehiker Morales Mendoza, 38, was arrested by HSI Las Cruces, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Border Patrol Oct. 11 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. All three individuals, who are expected to be extradited to Texas to face prosecution for capital murder and aggravated kidnapping, are illegally present Venezuelan nationals and documented members of Tren de Aragua, a brutal transnational criminal street gang from Venezuela.
A fourth Tren de Aragua gang member wanted in connection with the murder, 29-year-old Jhonny Jesus Martinez Serrano, remains at-large. HSI Dallas and Farmers Branch police are working with federal, state and local law enforcement across the country to locate Martinez Serrano and take him into custody. Anyone with information on his potential whereabout is asked to contact HSI at 1-877-4-HSI-TIP. The identity of members of the public who come forward to provide information will remain anonymous.
“Violent criminal organizations and transnational gangs like Tren de Aragua are a plague upon our communities that rely on fear and violence to reign terror on hardworking and law-abiding residents,” said HSI Dallas acting Special Agent in Charge Travis Pickard. “By coming together as a law enforcement community to successfully locate and arrest these fugitives across state lines, we have sent a resounding message that we are united in our efforts to dismantle these violent criminal networks and put an end to the lawlessness that they spread.”
The HSI Dallas Violent Gang Task Force is committed to eradicating violent crime in Dallas and surrounding areas by identifying, investigating, and arresting violent criminals involved in gang activities such as murder, extortion, narcotics and weapons trafficking, human smuggling and human trafficking, financial crimes, and other criminal activity with a nexus to the border. The task force brings together federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies with community leaders and intelligence resources to identify and dismantle the most violent transnational criminal organizations operating within the Dallas Metroplex.
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