Colorado apartments at center of Venezuelan gang debate to be closed
The Colorado apartment complex where armed alleged members of a Venezuelan gang were seen on video breaking into an occupied unit will be closed.
DENVER — The apartment complex where armed alleged members of a Venezuelan gang were seen on video breaking into an occupied unit, fueling Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to target migrants, has been ordered closed by the city of Aurora, Colorado.
The Edge at Lowry will close sometime next month after the city was granted an emergency court order to shut down the five-building complex because it has become a criminal nuisance, city spokesman Ryan S. Luby said Wednesday.
The city filed the petition last week after several armed and suspected members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang also known as TDA, were alleged to have kidnapped, bound and pistol-whipped two people at the complex last month.
City officials did not say what set off the dispute.
“We needed to get ahold of that property because it was being completely unmanaged,” City Attorney Pete Schulte said at a news conference this week. “Nobody at that premise is going to prevent individuals from committing crimes.”
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