(The Center Square) – Texas Department of Public Safety officers working through Texas’ border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to apprehend violent criminals at the Texas-Mexico border. Latest arrests include a confirmed Tren de Argua (TdA) gang membe and prison escapee, convicted murderers and gotaways tracked several miles by K9 units.
OLS officers made a major TdA arrest in El Paso after Texas DPS Criminal Investigations Division special agents led a multiagency investigation. Working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations and Border Patrol agents investigated they tracked a possible wanted TdA gang member, convicted murderer, rapist, and Venezuelan prison escapee staying at a hotel in El Paso.
After CID special agents encountered the suspect at the hotel, he attempted to evade capture by jumping out a second-floor window. He was apprehended and identified as Venezuelan national Alexis Ramon Perozo-Monasterio, 36, a confirmed TdA gang member…