SAN ANTONIO — The area of San Pedro and Basse was jolted when a massive law enforcement presence encompassing over a dozen agencies arrived early in the morning of Sunday, Nov. 16—eventually detaining more than 150 people in what federal officials said was an operation to disrupt a local Tren de Aragua criminal network.

Twenty-seven individuals taken away by law enforcement that morning, officials have since said, were found to be members of the Venezuelan gang.

But new records show the raid was the result of a state operation, not a federal one. According to an affidavit and search warrant obtained by KENS 5 from a government source, the bust was preceded by weeks of surveillance by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The state agency, the records state, zeroed in on the proper

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