Two “confirmed” members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua who allegedly forced their way into Aurora apartments and threatened residents were arrested in New York, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Denyeer Aramillo-Meneses, 23, and Edilson Pena-Angulo, 25, are wanted by the Aurora Police Department on suspicion of first-degree burglary and menacing with a firearm for the Aug. 18 incident at The Edge at Lowry apartment complex, security video of which set off an international media and political firestorm.
Shortly after the video was taken, 25-year-old Oswaldo Jose Dabion Araujo was fatally shot at 12th Avenue and Dallas Street, near the complex.
Aramillo-Meneses and Pena-Angulo, both Venezuelan citizens in the U.S. illegally, were arrested after a Homeland Security gang task force executed a search warrant in New York on Nov. 27, ICE officials said in a statement.
The men will remain in federal custody “pending criminal and immigration proceedings,” according to the agency.
Aurora police did not comment on the arrests Tuesday, but the department previously named Aramillo-Meneses and Pena-Angulo as two of the six suspects who allegedly forced their way into two apartments at the Edge at Lowry and threatened residents with guns.
Pena-Angulo was first detained by U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas in April 2023 after entering the country illegally, and immigration officials issued a notice to appear and released him in May 2023, according to ICE.
He was later arrested by Westminster police in a different case and an immigration judge ordered him removed from the country “in absentia” — meaning he wasn’t at the hearing — in February.
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Aramillo-Meneses was detained by border agents in El Paso in September 2023 after entering the country illegally and later released him days later with a notice to appear, ICE officials said.
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