{"id":4949,"date":"2025-04-29T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:43:08","slug":"venezuelan-illegal-alien-alleged-tren-de-aragua-leader-in-california-arrested-on-immigration-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/venezuelan-illegal-alien-alleged-tren-de-aragua-leader-in-california-arrested-on-immigration-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan illegal alien, alleged Tren de Aragua leader in California, arrested on immigration charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Venezuelan illegal alien, and alleged leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/tren-de-aragua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violent Tren de Aragua gang,<\/a> was arrested in Los Angeles County last week, the Trump administration told Fox News on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Yonaiker Gallegos, who had been using the name Yoniaker(sic) Rafel Martinez-Ramos, was already in local custody on misdemeanor charges for blank checks and possession of a deceptive government ID.<\/p>\n<p>He was located by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on April 22, according to a senior Trump administration official. Agents were able to determine that Martinez-Ramos was likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fake identity<\/a> after obtaining information about the items in his possession when he was arrested by local authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/venezuelan-government-uses-tren-de-aragua-proxies-undermine-us-public-safety-fbi-assessment-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT USES TREN DE ARAGUA AS PROXIES TO UNDERMINE US PUBLIC SAFETY, FBI ASSESSMENT FINDS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was positively identified as Gallegos on April 23 after HSI&#8217;s National Gang Unit obtained pictures of Martinez-Ramos&#8217; tattoos and booking photos.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts were also able to locate his social media posts and pictures, which ultimately confirmed his real identity as Yonaiker Gallegos through facial recognition technology, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared with Fox News from Gallegos&#8217; social media allegedly showed him flaunting grenades and a rifle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doj-indicts-alleged-high-ranking-tren-de-aragua-member-terrorism-charges-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DOJ INDICTS ALLEGED HIGH-RANKING TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBER ON TERRORISM CHARGES FOR THE FIRST TIME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on April 25 for Title 8 (immigration) violations, according to the senior official, who also said he was &#8220;identified as a leader of TDA based in California.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also confirmed Gallegos&#8217; arrest.<\/p>\n<p>HSI Los Angeles coordinated with state and local authorities to take Gallegos into federal custody on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\/illegal-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigration-related charges.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Venezuelan illegal alien, and alleged leader of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, was arrested in Los Angeles County last week, the Trump administration told Fox News on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/venezuelan-illegal-alien-alleged-tren-de-aragua-leader-in-california-arrested-on-immigration-charges\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venezuelan illegal alien, alleged Tren de Aragua leader in California, arrested on immigration charges<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}