Denver mans escape exposes chilling Tren de Aragua kidnapping plot that lands trio in prison

A Denver man’s roommates turned his home into a torture chamber after uncovering his family’s law enforcement ties, launching a brutal ransom plot at the direction of violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) leaders, federal prosecutors said Monday.The alleged victim survived days of abuse before escaping and walking into a police station missing a finger, prosecutors said.His captors had recorded the torture and sent the video to his wife, demanding money from his family in Venezuela.Darwin Veliz-Gonzalez, Jefferson Balza-Delfin and Yender Enrique Campos-Malave, all Venezuelan nationals, were each sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for the kidnapping and torture, the U.S.

Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced. A fourth defendant’s sentencing was postponed.BIDEN ‘MADNESS’ STILL BEING REVEALED AS FATHER KILLED, CHILDREN KIDNAPPED BY TERROR GROUP MEMBER: DOJ"This is what Tren de Aragua was doing in our community," U.S.Attorney Peter McNeilly said.

"Colorado is safer with these violent criminals in federal prison for the next 20 years, and we will continue to pursue every member of Tren de Aragua until there are no more left in our state."The victim had been renting a room in the Denver home, when his roommates learned that he and his father were police officers in Venezuela and took him captive, prosecutors said. They tied him up with rope and held him for several days without food and with very little water.SIX MEN ALLEGEDLY KIDNAPPED TWO PEOPLE AT VACATION RESORT, TORTURED THEM AT BOAT RAMP: FBIFederal prosecutors announced that three Venezuelan nationals each received 20-year prison sentences for kidnapping and torturing their Denver roommate in a ransom plot carried out for Tren de Aragua.(U.S.

Attorney's Office, District of Colorado)During that time, the men filmed themselves strangling him with a rope until he nearly lost consciousness, repeatedly holding his head in a bucket of water for 30 seconds or longer, threatening him with a ...