Federal agents nabbed a migrant Tren de Aragua gang crew holed up in a Bronx apartment — after tracking one of their ankle monitors to the hideout, sources told The Post.
The Dec. 5 raid at an apartment building on the edge of Crotona Park landed seven alleged gangbangers in handcuffs, including a troublesome 28-year-old Venezuelan national who was wearing a court-ordered monitoring device that led the feds to the crew.
“Better late than never,” quipped a law enforcement source who wondered why Jarwin Valero-Calderon was free despite at least three busts, a Nassau County conviction and a federal deportation order.
Cardozo was previously arrested by the NYPD on grand larceny and stolen property charges in July, and had two other Big Apple busts in June for reckless endangerment and robbery, sources said.
On June 28 he was also arrested for shoplifting in Greenville, South Carolina, according to the sources.
Another notorious TdA member, 30-year-old Jesus Manuel Quintero Granado, crossed the border in El Paso in September 2022 with his Peruvian wife and child, then headed into Canada, the sources said.
But Canadian authorities denied the family’s asylum request in September 2023 and shipped them back to the US, where northern border agents released them pending an immigration hearing, the sources added.
Granado quickly proved himself an undesirable with four arrests in New York and New Jersey.
The sources said he was first arrested for shoplifting in Paramus on Aug. 18, 2023, followed by an NYPD bust for grand larceny and possession of stolen property in July.
On Oct. 1 he was nabbed on a new shoplifting charge in Paramus, followed three days later by another grand larceny and stolen property arrest, this time in Walkill in upstate New York, sources said.
Rodriguez was arrested in Chicago on Nov. 3, 2023, on a shoplifting charge. Still free, he returned to New York City, where he was busted on larceny charges on March 30 and June 8.
Yet another migrant gangbanger busted in the raid, 21-year-old Fernandez Franco Greymer De Dios, was being processed for deportation after getting caught at the border in May.
Meanwhile, Valero-Calderon, the migrant fugitive whose ankle monitor led the feds to the gang, dodged the law several times before the Bronx raid, the sources added.
Calderon entered the US at Eagle Pass, Texas, in August 2022 and was released with a court date.
He was twice busted on larceny charges in New York and New Jersey, with led to a conviction in June 2023 — after a separate petty larceny conviction in Nassau County on April 24, 2023, records show.
Calderon then blew off a mandatory check-in with immigration authorities and was marked as a fugitive, yet somehow remained free despite a subsequent Florida arrest on Feb. 17 this year for fraud, larceny and resisting arrest, according to the sources.
All of the illegal migrants were identified by federal immigration sources as members of TdA.
The gang and an underaged offshoot, “Diablos de la 42,” or devils of 42nd Street, have landed on the NYPD radar in recent months, including for a rash of heists in Times Square.
The tiny terrors, some as young as 11, have exploited the state’s lax criminal justice and juvenile detention statutes to remain on the streets despite troubling rap sheets.
