Train de Aragua gang members linked to violent Colorado apartment takeovers arrested in major drug and weapons bust in New York: sources

A couple of Araguan gang members on the train brutal Aurora, Colorado apartment building attack Those arrested in a major drug trafficking and credit card fraud bust in New York on Wednesday also seized an arsenal of deadly assault rifles, The Post has learned.

Denyeer Aramillo Meneses, 23, and Edison Pena Angulo, 25, were captured in an early morning raid in the Bronx by a gang task force led by the NYPD and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, according to law enforcement sources.

A total of 15 suspected members of a Venezuelan immigrant gang were captured following a months-long investigation into drug trafficking and gang violence, sources said.

“Enough with these guys,” a law enforcement official told The Post. “(TDA’s) time is up.”

Meneses and Angulo were allegedly part of an armed bandit group. An apartment in Aurora was raided in August Sources added that the theft was caught on a viral camera that made national headlines.

Local police issued arrest warrants for Meneses and Angulo on October 1. According to 9 News in Denver.

But they somehow made their way to New York City, where cops caught up with them around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The network was the result of a six-month investigation into violent gang crimes that quickly led to a drug ring that sources said stretched from the Bronx to lower Manhattan.

The group was: sell various drugs Tussi was also involved in credit card fraud and violence, including heroin, fake weed and synthetic drugs, sources said.

Cops also found a cache of semi-automatic weapons during the raid, including three assault rifles, two handguns and ammunition boxes filled with cartridges, sources said.

It is unclear what charges the Tren de Aragua suspects face because their federal indictments and crimes remain secret.

In the Aurora case, both Meneses and Angulo were charged with first-degree burglary and threatening with a firearm. According to ABC affiliate Denver 7.

Local police say they and four other gunmen were caught on camera at The Edge at Lowry Complex apartments on August 18; This was just minutes before another man, 25-year-old Oswaldo Jose Dabion Araujo, was fatally shot.

According to police, five of the men knocked on two apartment doors, entered with a gun and one with a rifle, and threatened those inside.

Shocking video appeared later Post identifies Venezuelan prison gang ‘hitman’ Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-ChirinoHe participated in an assault and a subsequent shooting at another apartment complex in suburban Denver.

That building was recently Shutdown due to code violationsThe property owners said they could not fix the problem because the complex had been taken over by the gang, according to court documents obtained by The Post.

“First they were hanging around the property, creating a bad element that was always there,” said one condo investor. “And a few months ago they started taking over vacant units.”

Aurora, a city of about 390,000 just east of Denver, has seen an influx of both immigrants and prison gang members in the past few years.

This horrified some and forced others to take action.

“This has been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get out of here,” Cindy Romero told KDVR this summer as she and her husband, Edward, left the building.

“We have to do this every day when we come home, every time we go out to take out the trash,” said Cindy, turning each lock.

“Every time we go to bed at night. We must continue like this so that no one kicks in the door.”