{"id":392399,"date":"2025-11-20T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392399\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:33:20","slug":"dhs-identifies-5-of-27-suspected-tren-de-aragua-members-arrested-in-north-side-immigration-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392399\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS identifies 5 of 27 suspected Tren de Aragua members arrested in North Side immigration raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The Department of Homeland Security released new details on a raid that led to the arrests of 27 people with suspected ties to a Venezuelan gang. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In a Wednesday night news release, DHS said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/18\/what-we-know-about-the-federal-raid-on-the-north-side-tren-de-aragua-link-new-task-force-140-detained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/18\/what-we-know-about-the-federal-raid-on-the-north-side-tren-de-aragua-link-new-task-force-140-detained\/\">more than 150 immigrants were detained in a multi-agency operation<\/a> early Sunday near the intersection of San Pedro Avenue and Basse Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The raid was led by the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to DHS, ICE \u2014 along with other federal and state law enforcement agencies \u2014 executed a search warrant at an \u201cafter-hours club\u201d frequented by suspected members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Tren_de_Aragua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Tren_de_Aragua\/\">Tren de Aragua (TdA), a gang based in Venezuela<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Of the more than 150 immigrants detained, federal officials said 27 of them have alleged ties to TdA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">DHS released the identities of five of the 27 alleged gang members who were arrested on Sunday: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p>Brayann Ibraynn Morales-Rodriguez<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p>Yoibert Geraldo Caldera Pulido <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p>Jeison Javier Perez<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p>Roiberth Jesus Campos Duran<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p>Willy Yoel Arteaga-Tabares<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In the release, the agency also identified two additional people, Marcelo Gomez-Gonzalez and Yormary Paola Aguilar Fuentes, who were among those detained on Sunday. DHS officials did not connect Gomez-Gonzalez and Fuentes to TdA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities said they also recovered \u201ccocaine, three firearms and approximately $35,000 in cash\u201d at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Other arrests at the location included two people accused of human smuggling and money laundering and another person under investigation for cocaine trafficking, DHS said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Earlier on Wednesday, the Department of Justice said two men \u2014 who were also arrested in Sunday\u2019s raid \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2025\/11\/19\/2-men-charged-and-connected-to-federal-raid-on-north-side-appear-in-san-antonio-courtroom-doj-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2025\/11\/19\/2-men-charged-and-connected-to-federal-raid-on-north-side-appear-in-san-antonio-courtroom-doj-says\/\">made their first court appearance in a federal courtroom in San Antonio<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The two men \u2014 Marcos Contreras-Max and Edwin Javier Chinchilla-Lopez of Honduras \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2025\/11\/19\/records-obtained-for-first-people-charged-in-connection-with-federal-raid-on-north-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/2025\/11\/19\/records-obtained-for-first-people-charged-in-connection-with-federal-raid-on-north-side\/\">were taken into custody by ICE agents during the operation<\/a>, records obtained by KSAT on Tuesday showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After their arrests, the DOJ said Contreras-Max and Chinchilla-Lopez were transported to the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, before they returned for their Wednesday court appearances in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>More related coverage of this story on KSAT: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Department of Homeland Security released new details on a raid that led to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,12783,87849,409,31872,11628,7202,186275,7203,7725,358,158994,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-392399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fbi","10":"tag-hsi","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-ksat-investigates","13":"tag-north-side","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-san-pedro-raid","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-sapd","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tren-de-aragua","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115582520856984153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}