Exclusive | Tren de Aragua gang member was in ICE custody and set free before viral Aurora vid despite deportation order
A Tren de Aragua gang member was under a deportation order when he and five pals were allegedly caught on video storming an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado last month, according to ICE.ICE had Niefred Serpa-Acosta, 20, in custody following two arrests for theft — but released him on July 17, despite the fact that a judge ruled he should be removed from the country, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson told The Post.
The illegal Venezuelan migrant had also admitted that he was a member of the violent Venezuelan criminal organization — and had the tattoos to prove it, law enforcement sources previously told The Post.It’s not clear why Serpa-Acosta was not removed from the US, but the Biden-Harris administration is not deporting Venezuelan migrants because Venezuela’s communist regime doesn’t except deportation flights.
He remains on the lam.One month after he was allowed to go free, the admitted Tren de Aragua gangbanger was caught on video storming an apartment building with five other men — one armed with a rifle — and forcing their way into a unit.The footage went viral and turned the Denver suburb into the nation’s leading example of how sanctuary city crime and gang problems related to the influx of migrants are flowing into the suburbs.
Aurora cops have identified two other suspects as Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, and Naudi Lopez Fernandez, 21, both of whom crossed the border illegally last year and were released by federal authorities into the US, according to sources.The two had lengthy rap sheets in Colorado, but there has yet to be any evidence of their affiliation with Tren de Aragua.Aurora cops said on Wednesday they also identified the remaining three suspects involved in the incident, but have yet to release their identities.An ICE spokesperson told The Post that the agency issued a detainer for Serpa-Acosta with the Larimer County Jail in Fort Collins on April 24, which was holding him on theft charges.However...