Three men affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for their part in a kidnapping and torture case that took place in Denver in 2024.
The victim, a man who immigrated from Venezuela, was living with several other men from Venezuela and was working a construction job at the time of the kidnapping in October 2024, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado Peter McNeilly said in a news conference Monday.
The roommates learned that the man and his father were police officers in Venezuela, McNeilly said, and then held him at gunpoint as they tied him up and gagged him and kept him in a room at the house…