{"id":29851,"date":"2025-10-03T07:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29851"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:07:47","slug":"senior-member-of-venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-gang-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/10\/03\/senior-member-of-venezuelas-tren-de-aragua-gang-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior member of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

The alleged leader of Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua’s armed wing has been captured in a joint operation involving Colombia, the US and the UK.<\/b><\/p>\n

Colombia’s National Police said Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e1rquez Morales – known as Caracas – was arrested in the city of Valledupar and alleged that he played a central role in managing the logistics and finances for the group for extortion, drug trafficking, and smuggling.<\/p>\n

Tren de Aragua has been targeted by US President Donald Trump who declared it a terrorist organisation and deported more than 250 people he claimed were members of the gang to a jail in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

Colombia’s National Police Director, Carlos Fernando Triana Beltr\u00e1n said Mr M\u00e1rquez Morales was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice which is a request to police worldwide to detain someone pending extradition.<\/p>\n

News of the arrest emerged amid continuing tensions between the US and Venezuela over the Trump administration’s anti-drug-trafficking efforts in Latin America.<\/p>\n

It has deployed warships to the Caribbean and last month, bombed vessels which Trump claimed were carrying drugs, apparently travelling from Venezuela to the US.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has accused Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro of being in league with drug cartels and is offering a reward for information leading to his capture to $50m (\u00a337m).<\/p>\n

Maduro has strongly rejected Washington’s accusations and has defended his government’s actions against drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The alleged leader of Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua’s armed wing has been captured in a joint operation involving Colombia, the US and the UK. Colombia’s National Police said Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e1rquez Morales – […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[11655,2800,11654,285,2512,2885,5967,4993,952,8925,6359,1108,9757,11653,1902],"class_list":{"0":"post-29851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world","9":"tag-anti-drug-trafficking","10":"tag-colombia","11":"tag-colombia-national-police","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-drug-smuggling","14":"tag-drug-trafficking","15":"tag-drugs-trade","16":"tag-el-salvador","17":"tag-extortion","18":"tag-interpol-red-notice","19":"tag-nicolas-maduro","20":"tag-smuggling","21":"tag-tren-de-aragua-gang","22":"tag-valledupar","23":"tag-venezuela","24":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29853,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29851\/revisions\/29853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}