Feds raid migrant Tren de Aragua gang house in NYC — after tracking GPS ankle monitor to hideout

Federal agents nabbed a migrant Tren de Aragua gang crew holed up in a Bronx apartment — after tracking one of their ankle monitors to the hideout, sources told The Post.

The Dec. 5 raid at an apartment building on the edge of Crotona Park landed seven alleged gangbangers in handcuffs, including a troublesome 28-year-old Venezuelan national who was wearing a court-ordered monitoring device that led the feds to the crew.

“Better late than never,” quipped a law enforcement source who wondered why Jarwin Valero-Calderon was free despite at least three busts, a Nassau County conviction and a federal deportation order.

“This is what actual supervised release looks like?” the source asked. “The thing about ankle monitors is you have to actually monitor them to be effective.”

The raid was nonetheless a significant blow against TdA, the violent gang that snuck into the US with a wave of migrants seeking asylum since 2022 — and gained a foothold in New York.

Law enforcement officials said the gang has recruited inside tax-funded migrant shelters and runs violent theft and robbery crews while peddling drugs, guns and women in the five boroughs.

“What we’re seeing is this evolution of Tren de Aragua, where they’ve gone into these sanctuary cities,” said former Denver ICE chief John Fabbricatore. “They’ve started to solidify themselves and then they throw tentacles out to multiple other locations where they think that they can continue to make money.

“I think people are finally starting to realize how bad the situation has gotten.“

According to law enforcement sources, most of the gang members busted inside the Bronx apartment were sought on multiple warrants after crossing the US border with Mexico — then disappeared.

Among them was Jhonaiker Alexander Gil Cardozo, 24, who had amassed at least four busts in two states after crossing the border in El Paso in September 2022.

Cardozo was previously arrested by the NYPD on grand larceny and stolen property charges in July, and had two other Big Apple busts in June for reckless endangerment and robbery, sources said.

On June 28 he was also arrested for shoplifting in Greenville, South Carolina, according to the sources.

Another notorious TdA member, 30-year-old Jesus Manuel Quintero Granado, crossed the border in El Paso in September 2022 with his Peruvian wife and child, then headed into Canada, the sources said.

But Canadian authorities denied the family’s asylum request in September 2023 and shipped them back to the US, where northern border agents released them pending an immigration hearing, the sources added.

Granado quickly proved himself an undesirable with four arrests in New York and New Jersey.

The sources said he was first arrested for shoplifting in Paramus on Aug. 18, 2023, followed by an NYPD bust for grand larceny and possession of stolen property in July.

On Oct. 1 he was nabbed on a new shoplifting charge in Paramus, followed three days later by another grand larceny and stolen property arrest, this time in Walkill in upstate New York, sources said.

Also taken into custody after the Dec. 5 Bronx raid was Angel Gabriel Marquez Rodriguez, 19, who was released with a pending court date after crossing the border in September 2023 — only to run afoul with the law just two months later in Chicago, the sources said.

Rodriguez was arrested in Chicago on Nov. 3, 2023, on a shoplifting charge. Still free, he returned to New York City, where he was busted on larceny charges on March 30 and June 8.

Yet another migrant gangbanger busted in the raid, 21-year-old Fernandez Franco Greymer De Dios, was being processed for deportation after getting caught at the border in May.

However, the sources said he claimed fear of persecution and was released pending a court date — only to disappear, which resulted in a deportation order in absentia on Nov. 20.

Meanwhile, Valero-Calderon, the migrant fugitive whose ankle monitor led the feds to the gang, dodged the law several times before the Bronx raid, the sources added.

Calderon entered the US at Eagle Pass, Texas, in August 2022 and was released with a court date.

The sources said he reported to a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in the Big Apple the following month — but soon had a rap sheet of his own.

He was twice busted on larceny charges in New York and New Jersey, with led to a conviction in June 2023 — after a separate petty larceny conviction in Nassau County on April 24, 2023, records show.

Calderon then blew off a mandatory check-in with immigration authorities and was marked as a fugitive, yet somehow remained free despite a subsequent Florida arrest on Feb. 17 this year for fraud, larceny and resisting arrest, according to the sources.

He was ordered deported on April 25, but was still on the loose on Dec. 5.

All of the illegal migrants were identified by federal immigration sources as members of TdA.

The gang and an underaged offshoot, “Diablos de la 42,” or devils of 42nd Street, have landed on the NYPD radar in recent months, including for a rash of heists in Times Square.

The tiny terrors, some as young as 11, have exploited the state’s lax criminal justice and juvenile detention statutes to remain on the streets despite troubling rap sheets.