Posted on 04/23/2025 8:42:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department has announced the indictment of a leader of the violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, who will face terrorism and international drug distribution charges.
This is the first time the DOJ has brought terrorism charges against a member of the newly designated foreign terrorist organization.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the first-of-its-kind terrorism indictment ‘a critical step in dismantling their network and holding its members accountable.’
Enrique Martinez Flores, 24, a reportedly high-ranking member of TdA who goes by the name ‘Chiqui.’
He is charged with conspiring to provide, and providing, material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy, and cocaine distribution.
Jose Enrique Martinez Flores was arrested last month by Colombian authorities at the request of the United States.
As reported by FOX News:
“TdA is not a street gang—it is a highly structured terrorist organization that put down roots in our country during the prior administration,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital. “Today’s charges represent an inflection point in how this Department of Justice will prosecute and ultimately dismantle this evil organization, which has destroyed American families and poisoned our communities.”
FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital that Tren de Aragua is a “violent arm of the Maduro regime operating inside our borders.”
“With these charges, we are using every available tool to confront them as the transnational threat they are,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “From drug trafficking and human smuggling to brutal violence, this group has inflicted chaos on American communities.”
Patel added: “Today’s indictment is a critical step in dismantling their network and holding its members accountable.”
The amount of intelligent commenting here on FR has declined massively over the years.
Most commments are now nothing more than “trump needs to fire these judges asap” level of ranting.
Theres hardly any real thought provoking ideas on here anymore.
Then again well over half of the posts that get created are from nbc/newsweek/ny times/reuters level quality sites, so theres really nothing insightful or intelligent to even comment about.
The lack of easy usabilty of FR also makes it more and more of a dinosaur. This is a site that helped expose Dan Rather 20+ years ago. When was the last time a great revelation was brought up here?
The search features are weak, and the layout makes it difficult to follow what you’re responding to in a thread
The moderators don’t really seem to care and are very inconsistent in their comment deletions etc.....
How many people on FR are under 50? Under 40?
FR is going to need a major overhaul if it expects to survive.
“it is a highly structured terrorist organization that put down roots in our country during the prior administration,”
With the ASSISTANCE of the prior administration. So when are they going to be charged?? Let’s not forget the utter BS they charged Trump with when he left office, but hardcore treason by Biden is OK?? Taking sides against our ally in the middle east is OK? Financing a brutal mass murder against our ally via Iran is OK?
Interesting. What will help is the government has been so expansive in their definition of a terrorist almost anyone could be made to fit that mold, should they chose to.
>This should get the Bondi and Petel haters fired up.<
They’ll just start griping that she hasn’t convicted him yet. She’s too busy being on FoxNews, ya know.
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They have already engaged in warfare on us by invasion, killing our citizens, and using chemical warfare against us in the form of drugs. They have used innocent people as "comfort women" in their enterprises. They traffic children for the same purpose.
They are organized in divisions, battalions, companies, etc. They have ranks of specific names. They use civilian clothing but have distinctive clothing features as uniforms like Bulls hats.
In sum, they are prosecuting a war against us and have also committed crimes 'against humanity'.
Military tribunals, imprisonment or execution if found guilty.
This is not criminal or civil law, it is war.
As in the deportation issue, if we have a jury trial for each one and try each one on TV, we are going to lose.
Let's re=orient and act intelligently.
I would HATE to have her job. Everybody expects a thousand lawsuits and charges a day just to reverse biden obama evils. It is too much to do. Cannot do it.
Why we needed MAtt Gates. The wrecking ball.
So 10 to 15 years from now he’ll go to trial. Maybe they’ll keep him in gitmo but then again some liberal judge will release him on his recognizance.
You’ve said what I’ve been thinking for a long time. Not sure what Jim’s plan is moving forward, but something needs to change. There are certain posters that need to go. We know who most of them are. I would donate more if the disrupters were removed. I know, free speech, bla bla….
“...some liberal judge will release him on his recognizance.”
Guantanamo Bay is a small place....................
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I want to know how many of these gang members were connected to Dems?
A 24 year old is not running everything.
The DOJ simply doesn’t want to get to the root of the problem which is who is protecting them, who is making the money, and who facilitated their illegal entry.
Exactly. What is the relationship with the Democrats that own them. Where does the terrorism funding come from and where does the money go. Why are Democrat Senators and Judges so involved?
“Enrique Martinez Flores, 24”
“This should get the Bondi and Petel haters fired up.”
Yep - we does has a lots of morons here these days.....their motto is from a Queen song:
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, and I want it now
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, and I want it now
And yet, still no prosecutions of FBI agents, IRS agents or anyone who defrauded the government.
Yep
It’s good to know some others here feel the same way
Like seriously, why even bother to create a post about this?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4312944/posts?page=1
Is this the quality of what FR has devolved into? Creating posts from the AP about climate change?
Next go after AOC and Ugly Snake Carville
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