SAN ANTONIO — Federal court records show that two of the more than 100 people detained during a multi-agency operation over the weekend in north San Antonio were arrested on immigration charges.
Though the initial records obtained by KENS 5 related to the law enforcement activity pertains to just a pair of suspects, it provides another hint as to the nature of the operation, which officials said involved FBI and Homeland Security personnel in addition to local and state officials. Authorities say more than 140 people from Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico and other South American countries were taken into custody in an effort to disrupt the Tren de Aragua criminal network.
The two arrest affidavits, for Marcos Joel Contreras-Max and Edwin Javier Chinchilla-Lopez, don’t make mention of gang activity. But the documents accuse them both of illegal re-entry and state they were “encountered” during the early Sunday morning operation in the area of San Pedro and Basse, where they were arrested and handed off to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for processing…