A drag-wearing Tren de Aragua gangbanger was arrested and launched no fewer than 4 instances earlier than he went on a rampage within the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado — and now he’s going through brutal new fees.
Niefred Serpa-Acosta, 20, was beforehand caught on digital camera breaking into an condo with different gang members — in a viral assault that ended with a deadly capturing simply weeks after ICE inexplicably freed him in July, regardless of a deportation order, based on authorities.
This week, he was charged — together with eight different members of the violent Venezuelan jail gang — with kidnapping and torturing a pair at an Aurora, Colorado, condo complicated in December, ABC7 Denver reported.
Acosta was lastly arrested when cops trying to find suspects in that case discovered him attempting to move as a lady in a wig and girls’s knit hat.
The gangbangers face a variety of fees together with second-degree kidnapping, first-degree assault, aggravated theft, second-degree housebreaking, extortion and menacing.
Three of the suspects are nonetheless on the lam.
Authorities’ failure to cease Acosta started in December 2022 when he was caught crossing the border illegally into El Paso, Texas — a identified hub for Tren de Aragua.
He agreed to be deported into Mexico, however by no means was — and was as an alternative allowed to go free within the US.
His subsequent encounter with cops got here with an arrest within the Denver suburb of Lakewood in June 2023 when he was busted for theft.
He was launched, solely to be nabbed for a second time in Fort Collins in April 2024 and let go once more.
After his third arrest, for resisting an officer, obstructing police and larceny in one other Denver suburb, ICE took him into custody.
A timeline of failures to cease a gang member
December 2022:
- Border brokers catch Acosta crossing the border illegally into El Paso, Texas. Acosta agrees to being deported again Mexico
- He’s not eliminated, nevertheless, and he’s launched into the US “on his personal recognizance”
June 23, 2023:
- Cops in Lakewood, Colorado arrest Acosta for theft
April 23, 2024:
- Acosta is arrested for a second time in Fort Collins, Colorado — once more for theft
Could 16, 2024:
- Acosta is arrested for a 3rd time — by cops in Citadel Rock, Colorado, for resisting an officer, obstructing police and larceny
Could 17, 2024:
- ICE takes him into custody. Acosta admits to ICE that he’s a member of Tren de Aragua, with the tattoos to show it
Could 29, 2024
- An immigration decide orders Acosta to be deported
July 17, 2024
- ICE releases Acosta, regardless of his elimination order; the company has not defined why
August 2024
- Acosta is seen in a viral video forcing his approach into an condo in Aurora with fellow TdA gang members. A lethal capturing takes place on the complicated minutes later
Dec. 17, 2024
- Acosta is arrested in an Aurora condo constructing whereas dressed as a lady as cops looked for suspects who kidnapped and tortured two residents
The Publish beforehand reported that he admitted he was a member of Tren de Aragua — the gang that has terrorized New York Metropolis and has been present in not less than 18 states — and he confirmed off the tattoos to show it, based on regulation enforcement sources.
A decide ordered him deported, however ICE launched him as an alternative, and has not responded to questions on why it did so.
ICE didn’t reply to a request for remark once more on Tuesday.
One month after he was allowed to go free by the feds, he was caught on video with a bunch of fellow gangbangers storming right into a unit at The Edge at Lowry flats with 5 different males — one armed with a rifle.
That footage turned a nationwide image illustrating the scourge of Tren de Aragua in Aurora.
Minutes later, the group allegedly carried out a deadly capturing, based on CBS Denver.
Then, final month, Acosta, together with a bunch of fellow gangbangers, allegedly kidnapped a pair from their condo at The Edge and compelled them into a close-by unit on the similar complicated earlier than tying them up, pistol-whipping and beating them, cops mentioned.
Through the kidnapping, among the gangbangers returned to the couple’s residence to burglarize it.
The couple was ultimately let go by their captors after they promised to not name the cops.
A decide has since ordered the shutdown of The Edge condo complicated for posing an “imminent menace” to the general public after the latest spate of violence.
Acosta is again in ICE custody in Denver.