the gang<\/a> could now beef up its capabilities inside the jail, a federal source said.<\/p>\n\u201cThe federal government has long been worried about Tren de Aragua in Rikers Island because they have a more robust communication system to get information to the outside world,\u201d the source said. <\/p>\n
The gang relies on corrupt prison guards, released inmates, and visitors to ferry messages in and out of the lockup, the source said.<\/p>\n
Federal agents are worried because this is the first time the gang\u2019s thugs in the US are just 15 miles apart from their leader, Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro, who\u2019s locked up in a federal jail in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
\u201cZoran kills exec order No 50 just as we should be more focused on the Venezuelan gang in Rikers \u2014 did he know that? Does he think that the gang should have one less pair of eyes,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
The feds worry the gang will beef up communications inside the prison. Obtained by New York Post<\/p>\n
The gang relies on corrupt guards and visitors to get messages inside and out. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
\u201cWith dad away, the kids will play. Instead of Zohran making sure there\u2019s a babysitter, he took one away,\u201d the source said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The mayors office did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has quietly made it harder for federal agents to monitor Tren de Aragua and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42436,57,9,56,63,65,64,44701,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-96035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-maduro","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-tren-de-aragua","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}