According to the Sentinel Colorado, the owner of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, is blaming the local police department for the city’s recent establishment closure. She claims that law enforcement officers let the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua take over the region.
The Aspen Grove Apartments’ occupants will all have to leave on Tuesday as the city has deemed the building unsuitable.
“They cannot expect landowners to handle these concerns.”
The Aurora Police Department’s inability to stop gang activities led to the establishment’s closure, according to the property owner, Sentinel Colorado. The complex’s property manager is allegedly facing legal action due to many health and safety code infractions, according to city officials, who are rejecting the owner’s allegations. The city claims that the infractions occurred in 2019, before TDA’s operation in the region.
According to photos of the complex sent to the news organization, there were dangerous electrical and plumbing problems, rat, mouse, and cockroach infestations, and heaps of rubbish.
The city claims no gang activity caused the stoppage. It stated that the owner is trying to shift the blame for years’ worth of “serious, ongoing, unresolved code infractions” by employing “diversionary strategies.”
According to reports, Aurora threatened to close the condominium last year by sending a “nuisance” letter to the owner and property management. That decision, however, explicitly stated that the area was a criminal nuisance because the city received over 100 service requests between October 2022 and September 2023.
The owner said that law enforcement should have responded to the calls.
He told Sentinel Colorado, “They can’t expect landowners to handle these concerns.” “I repeatedly reminded them that if you guys had taken this seriously eight or nine months ago, you could have probably wiped it out quite easily.”
The owner claims that his tenants have told him that they have seen TDA members patrol the neighborhood with guns, break into empty flats, and even threaten renters to not pay rent.
Denver Police informed the news source that “there are reasons to think” that TDA is involved in a few local incidents.
The police stated, “Confirming gang affiliation is tough since suspected members of this group often do not disclose involvement in the gang and sometimes offer fake names during law enforcement encounters.”
Sentinel Colorado reached out to Aurora Police for a comment, but they did not provide one.
