DOJ charges over 25 in nationwide crackdown on Tren de Aragua

The Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against more than 25 people in a nationwide crackdown targeting Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, saying the operation resulted in the seizure of more than 80 firearms and 40 pounds of narcotics across multiple states.

Federal prosecutors said the defendants, many of whom they said are Venezuelan, Colombian, and Honduran nationals in the United States illegally, were charged as part of the Homeland Security Task Force investigations targeting the gang, which the Trump administration designated a foreign terrorist organization in January 2025.