Members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang, its associates and alleged co-conspirators have been arrested 517 times across the city this year — with 295 huge busts near popular tourist spots in Midtown Manhattan, crime statistics analyzed by The Post reveal.

The NYPD identified 41 migrant gangbangers in the Venezuelan crew — not including an affiliated youth crew and other associates — who alone racked up 143 arrests, with nearly half of the bookings in Midtown’s busiest retail districts since January, according to the data.

But the network’s expansion goes much further, with the 42’s affiliated Los Diablos gang and other co-defendants – and police believe there are more than 200 TDA members still to be documented.

“If you go back two years — that’s when we think they started arriving — we’ve made 45 percent more arrests than we did two years ago,” said one law enforcement source. “This is a gang that conspires to make money from committing crimes.”

About 48 percent of the arrests for the 41 identified TDA members occurred in eight precincts in midtown Manhattan, which include landmarks such as Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.

In addition to the 41 gang members identified by the NYPD, the TDA’s criminal network extends even beyond their ranks, sources said.

The gang also spawned a baby-faced offshoot with members as young as 11 calling themselves “Diablos de la 42” – which translates to “devils of 42nd Street”.

TDA, Diablos — and other “associates” and co-defendants — were arrested 517 times citywide through early October, with 57 percent of those arrests, or 295 arrests, occurring in Midtown, the statistics show.

“When you add in associates and co-defendants who are not in the (NYPD gang) database, there are 80 more people who are candidates for the database and possibly hundreds as associates arrested in other crimes,” the source said. law enforcement.

“When you factor in those associates, that’s 295 of the total 517 arrests we made in Midtown and surrounding precincts,” the source said. “This is TDA, (Diablos) and their associates. That’s 57% affecting crime in precincts 14, 18, 17, 19. It’s not just one area.”

Most of the migrant arrests were on charges of robbery and grand theft, but also included assault rape and car theft, the data showed.

Among the most notorious TDA gangbangers arrested in the city is Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 19, who allegedly admitted in a hospital bed confession that he was part of a The Train robbery team that posed as food delivery workers to carry out armed robberies.

Castro Mata is now imprisoned for attempted murder for allegedly shot two NYPD officers.

Also on the NYPD Train gang list are Kelvin Servita Arocha, 20, and Wilson Juarez, 22, part of a mob of cowardly migrants who jumped two policemen in Times Square in January and fled.

both were identified as gang members amid outrage over the videotaped attack on the officers.

A troublesome member of the junior gang, nicknamed “Little Devil”, has been hacked 11 times in less than five months before it was finally shut down by a judge after The Post exposed its facts.

The teenage terror, whose name is being withheld because of his age, crossed the US border into Texas in May 2023 and ended up living at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown with his mother before he continued. his theft of crimes of robbery and theftaccording to sources and court records.

The pint-sized robber is one of five teenagers identified as members of Diablo, sources said.

“As an agency, we don’t just throw anybody into a database,” said NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell. “We are disciplined with who we put in the database. We are aware of co-defendants with our TdA members and LDDL42 members and are checking our process. We just don’t throw anybody out there.”

Juvenile diablos have posed a particular problem for law enforcement because of New York State’s lenient treatment of younger defendants.

The state’s Raise the Age Act, passed in 2017, raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18. Previously, youths as young as 16 could automatically be tried in adult court.

In a scathing report last week, the city’s Department of Investigation revealed that the two Big Apple juvenile detention facilities are outdated with more violent residents at age 21.

It also shackles police and the state’s 2019 criminal justice reforms, which among other things barred judges from setting bail for most crimes, including the non-violent theft and robbery charges for which many of the migrant gang members are arrest.

Meanwhile, Tren established a criminal stronghold in the five boroughsincluding the sale of guns and drugs, primarily a lethal fentanyl mixture called Tussi, or “pink cocaine.”

Authorities have also linked the gang to sex trafficking, including along a long stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens known as “Lovers Square,” by forcing migrant women into prostitution to pay excessive smuggling fees.