{"id":2622254,"date":"2026-07-01T14:21:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-charges-eight-tren-de-aragua-members-with-vicious-crimes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:22:16","slug":"doj-charges-eight-tren-de-aragua-members-with-vicious-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-charges-eight-tren-de-aragua-members-with-vicious-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ charges eight Tren de Aragua members with &#8216;vicious&#8217; crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-charges-eight-tren-de-aragua-members-with-vicious-crimes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2622254&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Justice has indicted eight members of the Tren de Aragua gang for kidnapping and killing American citizens, including children, in Texas and Illinois.These indictments were announced by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and U.S. attorneys from both states.Five suspects face charges in Dallas, and three in Chicago. As President Trump took office, nearly 350 members of the group have been charged or convicted, though many remain active in the U.S. Blanche criticized the Biden administration, claiming the suspects entered the country illegally during the administration&#8217;s tenure. The indictments follow tragic cases where victims were kidnapped and murdered in both Texas and Chicago. prosecutors aim to apprehend and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >prosecute high-ranking gang members nationwide<\/a> and internationally, with possible terrorism charges. the cases highlight concerns over the group&#8217;s influence and criminal activities in the U.S.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"438\">Department of Justice<\/a> has charged eight Tren de Aragua members for kidnapping and murdering American citizens, including children, in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"253\">Texas<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/illinois\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"206\">Illinois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acting Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/todd-blanche\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"20883\">Todd Blanche<\/a>, joined by FBI Director <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kash-patel\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"11691\">Kash Patel<\/a> and two U.S. attorneys from the respective states, announced the indictments during a press conference on Wednesday. Five of the eight members were charged in Dallas, while the other three face charges in Chicago.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4632553\/trump-e-jean-carroll-5-million-damages-delay\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump asked for delay in paying E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages: Lawyers<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4632461\/doj-files-lawsuit-against-virginia-assault-weapon-ban\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>DOJ files lawsuit against Virginia over \u2018assault weapon\u2019 ban<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4632174\/judge-block-virginia-ice-mask-ban\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Judge blocks Virginia ICE mask ban hours before going into effect<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement served as an update to developments surrounding the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"339\">Trump administration\u2019s<\/a> actions against Tren de Aragua, a designated terrorist group originating from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"910\">Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blanche revealed that since President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> took office last year, nearly 350 Tren de Aragua members have been charged with or convicted of numerous crimes. The attorney general said the number was a \u201cpretty good start,\u201d though there are a \u201clot more\u201d members who are still active in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no official count of how many Tren de Aragua members are active in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, Blanche blamed the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"445\">Biden administration<\/a> for letting the eight drug cartel suspects illegally enter the country and carry out \u201cvicious\u201d crimes, as in the two newly announced cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery one of them entered under the Biden administration between December 2021 and April 2024,\u201d he said. \u201cNone of these men should have been in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dallas\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1504\">Dallas<\/a> in 2024, four men murdered a father and kidnapped both his 13-year-old daughter and 12-year-old nephew. Three of those four suspects are in U.S. custody for other crimes they committed, and the fourth is being held in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/colombia\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1213\">Colombia<\/a>. The fifth defendant facing charges was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles &#039;Anonymous&#039; Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">high-ranking official<\/a> within the Venezuelan gang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than two months ago in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chicago\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"808\">Chicago<\/a>, a male victim was kidnapped by three men in broad daylight at a park and taken to an apartment. The bound man was then transported to an abandoned building, where he was shot in the head and body multiple times. His body was left face down in a bathtub in the abandoned building.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both incidents were laid out in detail by U.S. Attorneys Ryan Raybould of Texas and Andrew Boutros of Illinois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe father in Texas should be alive today,\u201d Blanche said. \u201cHis daughter and nephew should have never been kidnapped. The young victim in Chicago should be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While providing statistics about Tren de Aragua, Patel said the drug cartel has seen a 519% increase in arrests during Trump\u2019s second term so far. Speaking more generally, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"516\">FBI<\/a> director disclosed that 29,000 \u201cviolent\u201d gang members have been arrested and 2,700 gangs across the country have been thwarted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will get them anywhere in the country,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will go overseas and get the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fidel-is-alive-cuba-marks-5-years-since-castro-death-with-mandatory-mourning\/\" title=\"&#039;Fidel Is Alive&#039;: Cuba Marks 5 Years Since Castro Death with Mandatory Mourning\">highest-ranking members<\/a> of Tren de Aragua and bring them here to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patel referenced a separate case in which federal authorities went after Venezuelan nationals who were recently sentenced to over six years in prison for hacking ATMs across the U.S. in a \u201cjackpotting\u201d scheme. The two suspects were linked to Tren de Aragua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4628230\/illegal-immigrants-linked-to-tren-de-aragua-prison-atm-hacking-scheme\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4628230\/illegal-immigrants-linked-to-tren-de-aragua-prison-atm-hacking-scheme\/\">VENEZUELAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LINKED TO TREN DE ARAGUA SENT TO PRISON FOR ATM HACKING SCHEME<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked by a reporter whether the DOJ will add terrorism charges to the Dallas and Chicago indictments, Blanche signaled that it could be the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOftentimes, those additional charges come later in the case when we\u2019re able to supersede,\u201d he answered. \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s instructed our prosecutors to, wherever possible, add any sort of terrorism charges to existing cases or cases that we\u2019re charging.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ charges 8 Tren de Aragua members for crimes in US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2622255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26182596274948.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33310,7076,39668],"class_list":["post-2622254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-criminal-charges","tag-doj","tag-tren-de-aragua"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26182596274948.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622258,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622254\/revisions\/2622258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2622255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}