Officials in El Paso, Texas are trying to shut down a motel in downtown after they say it has become a crime den controlled by Venezuelan super gang, Tren de Aragua, with police responding to the property nearly 700 times in the last two years.
The vicious South American gang– best known for selling women and children into sex slavery and exploiting its own countrymen– most recently made headlines in Aurora, Colorado, where armed thugs were seen storming an apartment complex residents say they have taken control of.
In a lawsuit filed by the El Paso County Attorney alleges Gateway Hotel owner Howard Yun is not trying ‘to control the conduct of the guests and is negligently allowing gang activity to infiltrate the area.’
Scenes of drug use, violence, and sexual activity happen within view of children, the suit states, with much of it happening in hallway parties.
While some of the crime goes back two years, the lawsuit alleges the situation has gotten worse since the ‘introduction of the Tren de Aragua organization into the hotel.’
The El Paso County Attorney detailed a long list of crimes police have investigated at the Gateway Hotel, including 11 drug cases, 10 aggravated assaults, 20 disorderly conduct calls, 13 fights, two terroristic threats and one case of indecency with a child, according to KFOX-TV.
One incident detailed in the lawsuit is from a 14-year-old victim who believed she may have been raped by a migrant.
The teenage girl met a man at a Circle-K convenience store.
The Spanish-speaking hotel guest asked if she had a place to stay the night, and she replied she did not.
She followed the man, who had a tattoo on his forehead with a playboy symbol and had a tattoo sleeve on his arm, back to the Gateway Hotel.
‘When they got to the hotel the male subject touched her chest and breast area underneath the shirt,’ the paperwork states.
‘The Victim and male subject fell asleep till the following day the Victim noticed her pants were hanging off her buttocks and felt a little discomfort in her vaginal area but she was not sure if he penetrated.’
The documents also describe TdA gang members beating up other migrants who live in the hotel or stealing their immigration papers.
Offering low daily rates, the hotel attracts migrants.
The previous owner was convicted for running a human smuggling ring for Asian migrants out of the same property, the suit states.
Local officials additionally claim the hotel is operating without a license is and seeking to close the property down since it has become a ‘habitual crime property.’
Dubbed the ‘epitome of evil’, the notorious criminal organization Tren de Aragua, or TdA as it is known by federal agents, has already unleashed a wave of crime in American cities.
As DailyMail.com exclusively reported, TdA has set up its new headquarters just across the border from El Paso, in Juarez Mexico.
El Paso officials, who asked to remain anonymous, now fear gang violence will spill over into Texas’ sixth largest city – which is currently ranked among the top ten safest in America by the FBI.
‘Tren de Aragua is the epitome of evil,’ Congressman Tony Gonzales, who represents El Paso, said.
‘This gang is known to rape children, spearhead murders, and cause widespread chaos.’
Law enforcement in El Paso is currently working on a confidential plan to address the growing threat, insiders told DailyMail.com
But Mexican authorities have been willing to speak more openly about TdA’s troubling arrival in Juarez.
‘We’re tracking them in Ciudad Juarez, that’s where they specifically have their principal point of operations,’ revealed the state secretary of public safety Gilberto Loya.
‘They’re not an easy gang to track, because they don’t act like a traditional gang.’
Members do not look or speak in a specific way – but are up to their old tricks, Loya explained.
Now in Northern Mexico, TdA is once again taking advantage of desperate migrants.
Gangsters are charging huge fees to smuggle migrants to the US border and then into Texas.
However, the mobsters are also kidnapping migrants who have made it to the US-Mexico border without their help in a bid to make even more money.
‘According to the security reports we have, this group of Venezuelans, Tren de Aragua, control which migrants can ride the train,’ Mexico state prosecutor Carlos Manuel Salas said – referring to the many migrants who ride a top trains in Mexico to reach Juarez to avoid having to make the journey by foot.
The presence of the Venezuelan mob in Mexico has caused panic among migrants, many of whom are fleeing the very violence TdA created in their homeland.
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Call out the National Guard and eliminate them. Problem solved. Where’s Ronald Reagan when we need him?
Full-strength Team 6 deployment; no one left standing. Do it now, or it will be much harder later. But, our cowardly politicans will just stand by and watch.
“Kill em All and let god sort em out”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don’t believe this will continue to creep north from the border you are naive. Do you think any democrat in Texas or elsewhere cares about this. They caused the problem. If Trump wins, he has a huge mess to clean up. This is why every illegal in all states need to be rounded up and pushed back across the border. Give to Mexico what they allowed to happen. It’s there mess.