FBI brokers and different regulation enforcement officers had been finishing up a sequence of arrest raids focusing on the Chuco Tango gang in numerous components of the El Paso space.
The early morning raids Thursday, Aug. 29, concerned brokers of the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Texas Division of Public Security in a federal operation in El Paso and Las Cruces.
Suspects are being processed on the El Paso County Coliseum due to the anticipated giant variety of arrests. Brokers might be seen exterior the coliseum the place a cellular communications hub was additionally arrange.
Chuco Tango is a prison gang that has grow to be more and more lively on El Paso’s streets lately.
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Chuco Tango is the El Paso model of the Tango Blast gang, which has teams in main Texas cities. The prison-formed gang will get its identify from the nickname “El Chuco” for El Paso.
Additional particulars had been anticipated to be launched later within the day.
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