Infamous Colorado apartment complex overrun by Tren de Aragua ordered to shut over ‘imminent threat’
By: Emily Crane
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An infamous Colorado apartment complex overrun by the vicious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang has been ordered to shut down because it poses an "imminent threat" to the public, a judge ruled.
The owners of The Edge at Lowry complex in Aurora were slapped with the emergency closure order late last week following a spate of recent violent ordeals — including the brutal kidnapping and torturing of a migrant couple who lived there.
The city had requested the closure as officials pursue criminal negligence charges against the building's owners — Five Dallas Partners — amid the wave of troubling incidents, the Denver Post reported.
In granting the order, Judge Shawn Day ruled that the 60-apartment complex — which is expected to shutter next month — posed "an imminent threat to public safety and welfare."
The owners of The Edge at Lowry complex in Aurora were slapped with the emergency closure order late last week following a spate of recent violent ordeals. Council member Danielle Jurinsky
Officials had argued in court papers that the infamous complex had become "an epicenter for unmitigated violent crimes and property crimes."
More than 60 criminal incidents — including violent assaults and armed robberies — have been linked to the complex since September 2023, the city said.
"The problem is a mismanaged location that allowed this crime to flourish," Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said after the closure order was issued.
The apartment complex was thrust into the national spotlight late last year after surveillance video went viral of multiple armed gangbangers forcing their way into one of the units. Edward Romero
It wasn't immediately clear how many people will have to move out of the complex.
"The city is simultaneously working on a plan with Arapahoe County and other community partners that will provide relocation assistance to established tenants of the 60 affected apartment units," city officials said in a statement.
The apartment complex was thrust into the national spotlight late last year after surveillance video went viral of multiple armed gangbangers forcing their way into one of the units.
The break-ins and shootings in and around The Edge forced several residents to flee, and outraged President-elect Donald Trump —
Meanwhile, nine suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers were charged last month following the kidnapping of a man and woman who lived at the complex. Seven others are still being investigated for their connection to the ordeal, cops said.
The group, a mix of men and women, ripped the migrant couple from their home at The Edge — then took them to another apartment where they were bound, pistol-whipped and beaten, according to police
The couple's apartment was also burglarized during the ordeal, cops added.
"We are not going to rest until we verify every individual in this incident is in custody, every individual who mistreated another human being the way these victims were treated is in custody and we will use again every resource at our ability to do that. We have proactively been focused on that apartment complex," the police chief said at the time.
"As everybody here knows and as the nation knows this complex is an incredibly problematic complex. It's an incredibly crime-riddled complex," he added, citing the multiple recent arrests at the apartments following the gang's takeover of the complex.
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Denver itself should be investigated for criminal negligence as they are they Sanctuary Shithole that welcomed Tren de Aragua into their city./
Wonder how many of the scum bag perps will actually be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law instead of the usual leftist liberal DA handslap?
In a Democrat run Sanctuary Shithole? Very little.
You get what you vote for.
"In a Democrat run Sanctuary Shithole? Very little."
You got that right!
But this was all fake news I thought.
This is about the city condemning the property due to the absentee slumlord abandoning the property to squatters...
So the presumption here is that there is no on-site management, which seems unlikely.
Also, what is an apartment manager is supposed to do when threatened by an armed gang?
The same talking heads that tell you it's "fake news" are the same ones that tell you that these bottom feeders are "asylum seekers".
Who was it that wanted all these foreigners to be allowed to come here?
The folks who are itching to supply cattle prods for feral cleansing. /S
As some liberal talking head said, What's the big deal, it is only a handful of apartment building taken over.
They're all good with the violence unless it inconveniences them.
One of Vance's finer moments. The incredulousness that this was somehow acceptable.
All the funnier because she was going for a "Gotcha " moment.