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A migrant who sold cocaine to undercover police officers three times is a member of the feared Venezuelan criminal gang El Train de Aragua, according to details in his arrest report from the Chicago Police Department. Edwin Camjo, 27, was arrested on Monday, December 11, at his home in Back of the Yards.
By CWB Chicago
Prosecutors said he sold cocaine to undercover agents on Oct. 30, Nov. 13 and shortly before his arrest. Additionally, police officers said when they detained him they found a bag in his waistband containing $487 worth of suspected crack cocaine.
Camajo “is a member of the Venezuelan El Train de Aragua gang,” authorities wrote in his arrest report. It does not say how the authorities reached this conclusion about Camjo.
Prosecutors charged him with four felony narcotics charges. The next day, Judge William Fahy released him.
Last fall, it was discovered that Tren de Aragua, believed to be Venezuela’s largest criminal organization, was operating from inside a Venezuelan prison equipped with restaurants, bars and an outdoor pool. Venezuela’s interior minister claimed in September that the government had “smashed” the gang’s prison operations after sending in 11,000 soldiers and police.
The Chicago Police Department, citing intelligence from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, alerted city police officers on October 23 to the presence of members of the Aragua Train in the city’s migrant community. A few weeks later, The Sun Times dismissed the idea, saying there was “little evidence” of a gang presence among the more than 20,000 migrants who arrived in the past year.
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