A suspected top leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was extradited from Colombia to the United States on Thursday, marking the first known transfer of a TdA member from Colombia to face terrorism-related charges in federal court.
Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, a 24-year-old Venezuelan national known as “Chuqui,” was set to appear Friday morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Christina Bryan in Houston federal court after arriving in Texas following a Homeland Security Task Force investigation, the Justice Department said in a press release.
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