LIHUE (HawaiiNewsNow) - Federal agents arrested 44 people during raids Wednesday on Kauai , with officials saying two are suspected associates of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang known for drugs and human trafficking.

Multiple federal agencies executed six search warrants at residences and one business. The homes were in Kapaa, Kalaheo and a business in Lihue.

Agencies involved included Homeland Security, the FBI, the Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

U.S. federal agencies call Tren de Aragua a transnational criminal network.

Since early September, the U.S. has carried out lethal airstrikes on small boats in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean, which US officials say were drug-trafficking operations linked to narco-te

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