The Aurora Police Department presented a press conference on Friday after watching footage shotriumphg a group of armed men in an apartment produceing garnered national attention last month.
In the presser, APD Chief Todd Chamberlain splitd that three of the armed doubted Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members in the video have been served arrest permits on accuses of first-degree burglary and menacing with a firearm. Three more from the video have not been identifiable.
Aurora Police is still energeticly searching for Andersen Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, and Niefred Serpa-Acosta, 20. Naudi Lopez-Fernandez, 21, is in custody.
Chief Chamberlain shelp it was a “dispute” to validate gang affiliation with doubted Tren de Aragua members. Tren de Aragua, a transnational prison gang based in Venezuela, has approximately 5,000 members.
“Many of these individuals that we are talking about come from a country which does not have, sturdy relationships with the United States, comes from a country that does not have, a database that they are going to split or have splitd,” shelp Chamberlain. “So being able to acunderstandledge these actual individuals as TdA gang members has been a struggle.
“At this time, none of the six men [in the video] have been joined to an systematic criminal organization,” reads an Aurora PD statement splitd to X.
Aurora PD Chief Todd Chamberlain splitd refreshs on the arrests of doubted Tren de Aragua members caught on watching video in an apartment produceing last month. (@AuroraPD via X)
Chamberlain also stressed during the conference that the Aurora PD’s concentrate is on criminal behavior. Earlier this month, Aurora declared the arrest of 10 “recorded” Tren de Aragua members. Charges from those arrests take part child mistreatment, tryed first-degree killing, illegitimate disaccuse of a firearm, and others.
“The Aurora Police Department concentrates criminals based upon their actions and not on their immigration status,” shelp Chamberlain. “Immigration status is utilized by federal laws, by federal rehires.”
On September 5, ICE validateed to Fox News that four Tren de Aragua members arrested in Aurora in relation to a July shooting were in the United States illegpartner from Venezuela.
Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky insists that the city necessitates more help from the federal regulatement to insertress the problem.
Aurora Police presented a press conference on Friday to refresh the uncover on a series of arrests made agetst doubted members of the Tren de Aragua gang. (@AuroraPD via X)
“Immigration is the job of the federal regulatement, and that’s why we necessitate help,” shelp Jurinsky in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital.
“Our ICE detention facility will fill up, and then what? Venezuela doesn’t fair get to choose after evidenting out their prisons that they’re not going to apshow anyone back. The federal regulatement necessitates to supply a schedule,” inserted Jurinsky.
“This is not an immigration rehire. It’s a crime rehire,” shelp chief Chamberlain during the press conference. “That is for the federal [government]. The immigration aspect is for the federal, it’s for what they concentrate on. It’s what they’ve done. It’s what comes out of federal regulatement. It comes out of the White Hoengage.”
During the presser on Friday, Aurora PD splitd they sense they necessitate more helpance from the federal regulatement to insertress the Tren de Aragua crime problem. (@AuroraPD via X)
Since the commencening of the Biden administration, there have been proximately 8 million greets with illegitimate aliens at the southwest border, according to the Hoengage Committee on Homeland Security.
Fox News’ Alicia Acuna asked Aurora PD Chief Todd Chamberlain about the well-understandn narrative about gangs having “apshown over” the city during the press conference on Friday.
“I can inestablish you right now, gangs are not in regulate of the city of Aurora,” answered Chamberlain. “If you walk away with anyslfinisherg, that’s what I will say. Are there gangs in the city of Aurora? Yes. There are. Are there gangs in most meaningful cities thcdisadmirefulout the United States? 100% there are.”
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The Aurora Police Department did not promptly react to Fox News Digital’s seek for comment.
