The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is warning residents about the presence of a violent Venezuelan street gang called Tren de Aragua. TBI Director David Rausch said intelligence the agency has gathered suggests the gang is in Tennessee after it was previously believed to be gone following past arrests.

HERRIMAN, Utah (KUTV) — A Herriman shooting in September is now being linked to the notorious gang, Tren de Aragua. The Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela — which has sparked concerns across the country and prompted the federal government to offer millions in reward money to capture its leaders — is now in Utah.

Homeland Security officials last week were warned in an internal department intelligence memo about the prison gang’s growing presence across the country — most recently in Washington, DC;

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a bulletin to law enforcement across D.C., Maryland and Virginia concerning an illegal Venezuelan criminal gang known as ‘Tren de Aragua’ that is growing in both size and violence across the region.

The gang is called TdA, or Tren de Aragua. It originated in the Venezuelan state of Aragua, where it operated out of a prison that it allegedly ran for years, to the point where it was able to install restaurants and a swimming pool inside the prison gates. Some consider the gang more powerful than the police in Venezuela.