More than two dozen people who federal prosecutors say are current or past members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been charged in connection with racketeering, sex trafficking and drug trafficking conspiracies in the New York City area.

The Justice Department announced two indictments that charged alleged gang members with a litany of crimes such as murder, robbing and extorting small businesses, forcing women trafficked from Venezuela to be sex workers and selling a "pink powdery drug," said Matthew Podolsky, acting U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York.

He added that the drug, called pink cocaine, is the gang's calling card.

“As alleged, Tren ...
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