Three members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were arrested in Utah on assault and burglary charges, with authorities also accusing them of having ties to a prostitution ring.
A law enforcement source that spoke with The Post Millennial has revealed that these three gang members allegedly broke into a home in Utah and held four people at gunpoint. The law enforcement source told the outlet that authorities have been a “big surge” in Tren de Aragua in Utah.
According to Salt Lake County jail records, authorities have charged 34-year-old Pablo Jose Fernandez Gil, 36-year-old Raquel Yudith Fagundez Pitire, and 18-year-old Kender Alberto Brieo Quijada with aggravated assault and aggravated burglary. The charges were issued last week against the three Venezuelan illegal aliens. According to the report, Gil is a fugitive of justice and a federal detainee.
🚨3 Tren de Aragua gang members charged with holding 4 people at gunpoint in Utah.
Pablo Gil, Raquel Pitire, and Kender Quijada, are all Venezuelan suspects from TdA.
They have suspected ties to a prostitution ring as well.
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Local news station KSL has reported that each of the arrestees will be subject to gang-enhancement penalties if they are convicted.
The local station also noted that Salt Lake Unified Police took the three illegals into custody on November 1 when officers responded to a burglary. A witness at the scene reportedly told police that “Gil told everyone he was going to kill them if they did not leave their girls alone” — adding that Gil and his fellow gang members had barged into a home with four people inside.
After entering the house, Gil “proceeded to rack the handgun he was pointing at the victims and told them that he would kill them. (He) then told one victim he was marked because he had messed with (their) girls,” according to charging documents.
Police further noted that the trio of gang members were searching for a woman at the time. Pitire, who is married to Gil, reportedly told the four victims that her husband was “trained in the Venezuelan military and that she was the girls’ boss in Utah.”
After one of the victims told the gang members to leave, Pitire said that “she was going to kill him, rob everyone on the property and then shoot him.”
Speaking to police later, two of the female victims stated that the gang members “control their lives” and everything that they do, revealing that they “had been forced to do prostitution since arriving in Utah.”
They also informed police that another woman “was being held at a local hotel” by the gang members who “had been assaulting her.”
The woman was found by officers at the West Valley hotel, where she told police that “Gil tried to shoot her, but it failed so he hit her with the gun on her right temple and then used the handgun to hit her on her left thigh,” according to the charging documents.
Tren de Aragua has been slowly migrating to the United States and becoming a serious problem in numerous cities across the country, committing horrific crimes in places like New York City, Chicago, Colorado, and now Tennessee and Utah.
Dangerous Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is now operating in every major city in Tennessee.
Only 67 more days till this bullsh*t comes to an end.
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