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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Frank Main

Despite internal police alerts, scant evidence of violent gang members among Venezuelan migrants in Chicago

Migrants camped out earlier this month at the Near North police district station at 1160 N. Larrabee Ave., where those arrested for shoplifting on the Magnificent Mile have been processed. (AP)

The Chicago Police Department is warning officers to be on the lookout for members of a violent Venezuelan prison gang they say might be living among the 20,000 migrants who’ve come to the city over the past year.

But there’s little publicly available evidence that the gang, El Tren de Aragua, has a presence in Chicago. The gang is known in South America for human trafficking, drug sales, kidnapping and the violence that comes with it all.

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