Agency official praises Trump as DOJ, FBI report thousands of gang arrests
July 23, 2026 | Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Department of Justice (DOJ), Executive, Federal
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An agency official said the Department of Justice and partner agencies have arrested "29,000 violent gang members" and "disrupted and dismantled 2,700 gangs," praising what the speaker called "President Trump's historic leadership" for enabling the actions.
The speaker listed the crimes attributed to the group repeatedly identified in the statement (transcript rendering: "Trende Aragua" and variants), saying members were linked to "murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, and money laundering." The official said agents from multiple agencies, including the FBI, participated in operations that recovered drugs and "dozens of guns."
Why it matters: The statement frames the enforcement work as part of broad federal efforts to target transnational criminal networks and emphasizes that the Justice Department will continue to pursue suspects across jurisdictions. The remark that the president s leadership provided tools to law enforcement places the operations in a national-policy context rather than as a local initiative.
The official said the operations had tied the group to more than 100 separate police investigations and committed to carrying out arrests wherever suspects are found. "The United States Department of Justice and our partners will go wherever we find any of these gangbangers to be hiding and bring them here to justice," the speaker said.
The transcript records the speaker thanking the president "for recognizing Trende Arago for what they are, terrorists," a characterization presented in the statement. The speaker concluded by saying, "We are gonna lock them up. They are no longer gonna be free to roam. No more."
The statement attributes the numbers and characterizations to the speaker; the transcript does not include an on-record name or official title for the person who delivered the remarks. The Department of Justice and the FBI are referenced in the statement as participating agencies. The transcript does not record details such as dates of the operations, locations of arrests, or the legal basis for a terrorism designation; those items are listed as not specified in the record.
The speaker listed the crimes attributed to the group repeatedly identified in the statement (transcript rendering: "Trende Aragua" and variants), saying members were linked to "murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, drug trafficking, and money laundering." The official said agents from multiple agencies, including the FBI, participated in operations that recovered drugs and "dozens of guns."
Why it matters: The statement frames the enforcement work as part of broad federal efforts to target transnational criminal networks and emphasizes that the Justice Department will continue to pursue suspects across jurisdictions. The remark that the president s leadership provided tools to law enforcement places the operations in a national-policy context rather than as a local initiative.
The official said the operations had tied the group to more than 100 separate police investigations and committed to carrying out arrests wherever suspects are found. "The United States Department of Justice and our partners will go wherever we find any of these gangbangers to be hiding and bring them here to justice," the speaker said.
The transcript records the speaker thanking the president "for recognizing Trende Arago for what they are, terrorists," a characterization presented in the statement. The speaker concluded by saying, "We are gonna lock them up. They are no longer gonna be free to roam. No more."
The statement attributes the numbers and characterizations to the speaker; the transcript does not include an on-record name or official title for the person who delivered the remarks. The Department of Justice and the FBI are referenced in the statement as participating agencies. The transcript does not record details such as dates of the operations, locations of arrests, or the legal basis for a terrorism designation; those items are listed as not specified in the record.
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