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Police person arrested 3 individuals linked to Tren de Aragua who were allegedly progressive successful nan kidnapping and execution of a Texas man whose assemblage was recovered successful August.
The assemblage of Nilzult Petit, 33, was discovered successful Irving, Texas pinch a azygous gunshot coiled to nan caput connected August 24. Officers located Petit's assemblage and later recovered 2 young children, reportedly related to Petit, wandering alongside nan IH-35E road work road.
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Officers opportunity these children were near connected nan broadside of nan roadworthy aft Petit was allegedly executed by suspects linked to nan transnational Tren de Aragua gang, according to reporting from FOX 4 Dallas.
According to a constabulary release, 4 Venezuelan nationals allegedly kidnapped Petit and his 2 young relatives, taking them to an flat successful Farmers Branch, Texas. Investigators study that nan suspects executed Petit and past abandoned nan children connected a adjacent work road.
Four suspects person been allegedly linked to nan decease of Nilzult Petit and nan kidnapping of 2 of his juvenile relatives, pinch 1 still astatine large. (Farmers Branch Police Department)
Farmers Branch constabulary identified and apprehended 3 suspects progressive successful this case: 38-year-old Ehiker Alexander Morales Mendoza, 25-year-old Carlos Luis Zambrano Bolivar, and 22-year-old Jhonata Nahin Toro Gonzalez. The suspects look charges of superior execution and 2 counts of aggravated kidnapping.
Authorities are still connected nan lookout for a 4th suspect, Jhonny Jesus Martinez Serrano, 29, who remains astatine large.
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Police discovered that Petit had allegedly been moving pinch nan suspects successful an ATM theft scheme. When Petit reportedly grounded to salary his co-conspirators, they retaliated by kidnapping some him and nan children.
Two of nan suspects, Bolivar and Gonzalez, were apprehended by ICE agents successful Aurora, Colorado, while Mendoza was taken into custody successful New Mexico by agents from Homeland Security. Aurora, Colorado has been linked to Tren de Aragua pack activity since August, erstwhile surveillance footage went viral from an flat building overrun by nan criminal outfit.
Still image from societal media video shows suspected juvenile Tren de Aragua members based retired of nan Roosevelt Hotel, who person allegedly been attacking nan adjacent Times Square successful a drawstring of robberies. (Obtained by New York Post)
Tren de Aragua is based successful Venezuela but has precocious expanded its operations to nan United States, including supplier and quality trafficking.
Officials pinch nan Farmer's Branch PD indicated that nan suspects arsenic good arsenic Petit are affiliated pinch Tren de Aragua, though these crimes were not specifically gang-related per a release.
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Bolivar, Gonzalez, and Mendoza are awaiting extradition from Colorado and New Mexico, respectively.
Anyone pinch accusation astir Serrano’s whereabouts is asked to interaction nan Farmers Branch Police Department astatine (972) 919-1406 aliases via email astatine pdinfoandtips@farmersbranchtx.gov and tin stay anonymous.
Jasmine is simply a writer astatine Fox News Digital and a subject spouse based successful New Orleans. Stories tin beryllium sent to jasmine.baehr@fox.com
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