Drag-wearing Tren de Aragua gang member was arrested and released 4 times before he wreaked havoc on Aurora, Colorado
A drag-wearing Tren de Aragua gangbanger was arrested and released no fewer than four times before he went on a rampage in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado — and now he’s facing brutal new charges.Niefred Serpa-Acosta, 20, was previously caught on camera breaking into an apartment with other gang members — in a viral attack that ended with a fatal shooting just weeks after ICE inexplicably freed him in July, despite a deportation order, according to authorities.This week, he was charged — along with eight other members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang — with kidnapping and torturing a couple at an Aurora, Colorado, apartment complex in December, ABC7 Denver reported.Acosta was finally arrested when cops searching for suspects in that case found him trying to pass as a woman in a wig and women’s knit hat.The gangbangers face a range of charges including second-degree kidnapping, first-degree assault, aggravated robbery, second-degree burglary, extortion and menacing.Three of the suspects are still on the lam.Authorities’ failure to stop Acosta began in December 2022 when he was caught crossing the border illegally into El Paso, Texas — a known hub for Tren de Aragua.He agreed to be deported into Mexico, but never was — and was instead allowed to go free in the US.His next encounter with cops came with an arrest in the Denver suburb of Lakewood in June 2023 when he was busted for theft.
He was released, only to be nabbed for a second time in Fort Collins in April 2024 and let go again.After his third arrest, for resisting an officer, obstructing police and larceny in another Denver suburb, ICE took him into custody.The Post previously reported that he admitted he was a member of Tren de Aragua — the gang that has terrorized New York City and has been found in at least 18 states — and he showed off the tattoos to prove it, according to law enforcement sources.A judge ordered him deported, but ICE released him instead, and has not respo...