Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "I don't think we're at the point of everyone having to watch outside their homes of this infiltration," Rausch said in video released on the department's YouTube page.

Venezuelan gangs have made news in Tennessee after the head of the TBI recently said members had been found in every city in the state. But so far, Memphis Police Interim Chief C.J. Davis told City Council on Tuesday,

The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is now operating in 16 states, according to a new Homeland Security memo cited by the New York Post.

A member of the violent Venezuelan gang now operating in Tennessee is charged in connection with a human trafficking operation in Chattanooga.

The transnational criminal gang, known for violent acts and human trafficking, is now reportedly active in at least 16 US states.

Wesley Tabor spent more than two decades working for the Drug Enforcement Administration. He held leadership positions across the US and spent years serving in Central America, including Venezuela. There,

Rausch claims the gang is involved in human trafficking here in Tennessee and, based on its operations in other states, will soon expand into retail theft rings and the drug trade.