Chaos in Aurora | Drudge Retort

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Aurora, Colorado, is normally a quiet, nondescript suburb 30 minutes outside Denver. In recent months, however, the city has been at the center of a national scandal. Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had "taken over" a series of apartment buildings in Aurora"and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest of purported gang members, and shocking security footage that showed heavily armed men forcibly entering one of the apartments. In response to the chaos, police mobilized en masse and vacated one of the complexes after the city, alleging code violations, deemed it uninhabitable

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The Desperation from Republicans Reeks.

btw, were there any cats or ducks involved?

But I guess when your Party's candidate is a notorious criminal, traitor, and all round doofus, then reeking of desperation and pointing to just about anything else is about all ya gots.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-12 12:18 PM

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Yeah, a 2 second search on Google. I'm fricking exhausted!

City officials and residents say there is no Venezuelan gang "takeover" in Aurora, Colorado

Surveillance video showing what appears to be a group of Spanish-speaking armed men entering an Aurora, Colorado, apartment complex has stoked fears about people in the U.S. illegally. But city officials and apartment residents have disputed claims that a Venezuelan gang has seized control of the complex.

Some Tren de Aragua members have been arrested near an Aurora apartment building on Nome Street, an Aurora Police Department statement said. That is a different building from where the viral video was taken, but is owned by the same company.

Tren de Aragua formed in the Venezuelan state of Aragua more than a decade ago and operated out of a prison there, Reuters reported. The group established a presence in the U.S. in the past six years, federal officials told the Denverite, a news site. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said that Tren de Aragua has a presence in metropolitan Denver, but the threat it poses is "very small" compared with other criminal organizations in the region.

Residents at The Edge held a press conference Sept. 3 and disputed claims that their building had been taken over by Venezuelan gang members. They said the apartment conditions, including rat infestations and bedbugs, were caused by neglect by the owners, CBZ Management. One resident displayed live mice he had caught on glue traps as an example of health and safety concerns at the building.

CBZ claimed in an August statement that it has been unable to manage multiple buildings in Aurora because Tren de Aragua has violently taken them over. The company has apartment code violations related to pests and trash disposal that date back to 2020. The Nome Street apartments were shut down in August after city officials found health and safety problems, including a lack of electricity and rodent infestations.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman initially told Fox News on Aug. 29 that the men in the video were Venezuelan gang members who pushed out the property's manager and intimidated tenants into paying them rent. Coffman later walked back those claims.

"What I can tell you now is that the gangs are not in control of either complex," Coffman told Newsweek on Sep. 9, referring to The Edge and other Aurora buildings owned by the same company.

By the way, this source is PolitiFact on the hyperlinked title.