Two documented Tren de Aragua gang members are in custody in Aurora, awaiting extradition to Texas on murder and kidnapping charges, officials said Friday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said 22-year-old Jhonatan Nahin Toro Gonzalez and 25-year-old Carlos Luis Zambrano Bolivar, both Venezuelan nationals in the United States illegally, were apprehended Sept. 26.
Toro Gonzalez and Zambrano Bolivar are both currently in ICE custody at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, pending extradition to Dallas County, Texas, where they’re wanted for capital murder and aggravated kidnapping, officials said.
An ICE spokesman told The Denver Gazette both men are documented Tren de Aragua gang members.
Toro Gonzalez and Zambrano Bolivar are two of four suspects wanted in connection with the killing of 33-year-old Nilzult Petit, according to a news release from the Farmers Branch Police Department in Texas, a suburb northwest of Dallas.
Farmers Branch police found Petit’s body in a roadway in the 1100 block of Valley View Lane in Farmers Branch, Texas, on Aug. 24. Police said Petit had been shot once in the head.