Two suspected Tren de Aragua gang members busted in connection with an attempted murder in the migrant hotbed of Aurora, Colorado, have been released from custody, The Post has learned.
Venezuelan brothers Dixon Azuaje-Perez, 20, and Nixon Azuaje-Perez, 19, who are charged with trying to tamper with evidence in the July 28 shooting, were sprung after posting $1,000 bond — and despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement issuing a detainer for their arrests, sources said.
The pair are being monitored with GPS technology and are located near an apartment complex in Denver, sources said.
Aurora Police Department confirmed to The Post that the two “are no longer in custody.”
Homeland Security sources told The Post that the brothers entered the US on Aug. 22, 2023 at a port of entry in Eagle Pass, Texas, using the CBP One app, even though they lacked proper documents to be allowed in.
Instead, they claimed to be seeking asylum and were ushered through, sources said.
“Sanctuary cities do not protect United States citizens, they only protect criminals,” said former Denver ICE director John Fabbricatore, who is running for Congress in Colorado. “As we see in this case, where two individuals that were let in on the CBP One app were involved in a shooting and were released due to sanctuary policy, and ICE was not notified. Two men who will go back into the community and potentially commit more crimes.”
Within hours of their entry into the US, the siblings were released and believed to be en route to New York — where they told federal authorities they were headed.
But the brothers were instead turned up in the sanctuary city of Aurora, where Tren de Aragua members have been taking over whole apartment complexes and terrorizing residents with violent crime.
The US Marshals didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request about whether they arrested Nixon or Dixon.
A confirmed member of the gang, Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino, who sources previously said is a “shot-caller” for Tren de Aragua with the nickname “Galleta,” or cookie in Spanish, was also allegedly involved in the July 28 shooting.
In November 2023, Pacheco-Chirino allegedly brutally beat a man alongside a squad of gangsters and was eventually released on bail before failing to show up to court.
He then took part in the July 28 shooting at the same apartment complex.
Pacheco-Chirino and his brother Jhonnarty Dejesus Pacheco-Chirinos, also a Tren de Aragua member, face attempted murder and other charges, according to the Aurora Police Department.
The brothers crossed the Texas border illegally on Oct. 2, 2022.
Pacheco-Chirino was let go at the time with a tracking device.
The Biden administration began using the CBP One app for asylum seekers in January 2023 in anticipation of the end of the Trump-era expulsion COVID-era order known as Title 42.
Migrants then began using the app to book entry appointments while in Mexico, with the intention that they wouldn’t be exploited by cartels or expose themselves to danger by coming illegally.
However, sources say no extra vetting is involved.
“There’s hardly any vetting done with that app. So it doesn’t surprise me that gang members get in so easily and frequently,” a source told The Post.
The app allows 1,450 migrants to enter the US each day by availing themselves at ports of entry in Mexico.
The Mexican government also recently announced an initiative to bus migrants from southern Mexico to the US border to get them to their CBP One appointments more quickly.
CBP One also allowed three suspected ISIS terrorists from Tajikistan to enter the US, according to data the Department of Homeland Security provided to the House Judiciary Committee.
The three terror suspects were scooped up in June, along with five others from Tajikistan who crossed the border during the Biden administration, in an multi-state operation first reported by The Post.
