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July 30, 2024 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Understanding Gangs. This podcast examined street and prison
gang structure and activity in the United States from the
perspective of law enforcements, academics, and former gang members. Let's
get started.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
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(01:15):
craos that's happening over in Venezuela, but the Venezuela and
Chaos is also here in the US, especially in New
York and other places, the Venezuela Gang to the end
at Agua, which is the train from the city of
at Agua, has been given the green light to attack
an open fire on police in Denver. According to a
federal membo obtained by the Posts the New York Posts,

(01:36):
the gang's already lied to hundreds of crimes or tied
to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two NYPD
cops who were trying to arrest one of its members
in June. This, of course, is not Venezuela. Credible human
sources from Colorado provide information on the gang giving a
green light to fire or on or attack law enforcement,
said the Homeland Security. As you may know it is

(01:58):
according to Homeland Security, we have a TDA presence here
in Chicago, so please be visually as you encounter the
members of affiliates during your investigative and operational activities. This
is also a warning given out to Denver, who has
about forty two thousand migrants, more per capital than any
other US city, and many of them are from Venezuela.
The prison gang whose name means the train from Adahua,

(02:21):
a reference to the Aigua region in Venezuela has infiltrated
the US by setting members posing as asylum seekers. From there,
it's members have flocked to major US cities, including New York, Chicago, Miami,
and Denver, where they engage in money laundering, gun smuggling, theft,
and human trafficking. The US Border Patrol and began tracking
the group last year and has recorded catching seventy already

(02:41):
of its members according to federal data. However, many are
getting past law enforcement and it's vetting processes because younger
members are careful not to get gang tattoos or other identifiers.
This is something we also saw with MS thirteen. Right now,
it's far too easy for criminals to enter the US
accor to a border Patrol source. They have zero access

(03:02):
to other nations criminal databases, and with this administration's ineffective
deterring these criminals the court of the border patrol source,
they will keep entering undetected. The gang has been the
subject of more than one hundred criminal investigations already opened
by federal authorities. The Biden administration designated the gang as
a transnational criminal organization and began offering twelve million dollars

(03:24):
reward for the rest of its leaders. Now, I don't
know if they operate like other cartels, so if they
just because you kill the leader doesn't mean as much
because it causes more chaos and usually it's just like
a hydra than mythology, mythological creature than that grows another head.
Venezuelan migrant Bernardo Roud Castomata, who's accused of shooting two
NYPD officers he's only aged nineteen, allegedly told cops he

(03:47):
was recruited by the Venezuelan gang's Big Apple coordinator to
join its Snatch and grab mo pet thieves. Matav after
legally crossing the border into Texas, allegedly said he was
encouraged to get gang tattoos to prove allegiance. Matsa also
revealed that the gang has been smuggling guns into New
York City's migrant shelters and food delivery bags, so big

(04:08):
problems arriving here in the US now
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