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The mayor of Aurora, Colorado, said the city is going to get an emergency court order to clear apartments that have been targeted by Venezuelan gangs.
Mayor Mike Coffman posted his comments on his Facebook account Friday evening.
Coffman said the city will declare the apartments a “public nuisance.”
“The problems associated with Venezuelan gang activity has been isolated to properties that are all under the same out-of-state ownership whose problems with code violations and criminal activity preceded the migrant crisis,” Coffman said.
The issue made international news after a video posted on X showed armed men walking around an Aurora apartment complex. That video was posted Aug. 28 and has been viewed 5.7 million times.
The video caught the attention of Elon Musk, who re-tweeted it on X with a one-word description: “Insane.”
Coffman said in an interview with KUSA that the police have not yet identified the people in the viral video as being members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.
Coffman said in an interview with KUSA that the reaction to the video was “overwhelming” the city’s 911 dispatch and “we’re in some sort of environment of hysteria right now.” Coffman said gang activity was “isolated.”
Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky stated on her Facebook account on Aug. 28: “And I repeat… A GANG HAS TAKE OVER entire apartment complexes in Aurora.”
The Aurora Police Department stated that its officers have been proactively patrolling areas where there is suspected gang activity. The police department posted video on X of officers walking around apartment complexes. The police department has also created a multi-agency task force to deal with the Venezuelan gang.
Aurora Interim Police Chief Heather Morris said police have talked to residents of the impacted apartment complex.
“There’s definitely a different picture,” Morris said in a video the police posted on X. “I’m not saying that there’s not gang members that don’t live in this community. What we are learning out here is that gang members have not taken over this complex. … We are making sure that people aren’t paying rent to gang leaders or gang members and that is not happening. … That’s not the case.”
Jurinsky responded to the police video with a comment on X.
“Well, I’m not sure who’s running it then. You have the same police report I do … remember when the staff was beaten up and guns held to their heads by the ‘cookie monster’ and crew? They were told never to return, and they haven’t,” Jurinsky wrote on X.
The “cookie monster” appeared to be a reference to Tren de Aragua gang member Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino.
On Aug. 30, the Aurora Police Department posted a mugshot of Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino and identified him as a member of Tren de Aragua that was arrested in connection with a July 28 shooting. Police said Pacheco-Chirino is also known as “Cookie” or “Galleta,” which is Spanish for cookie.
The police said Pacheco-Cirino had been arrested in March 2024 for an aggravated assault and was bonded out. Then on July 28, he was arrested in connection with a shooting in which there were two gunshot victims.
Pacheco-Chirino has been in custody of ICE since July 28, police said.
“In the coming days, we will provide a more comprehensive, public update with additional, accurate information about this criminal group and its affiliates,” police stated.
In July, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control called Tren de Aragua an “escalating threat” to Americans. The Treasury Department said the gang is expanding throughout the Western Hemisphere and activities include human smuggling and trafficking, gender-based violence, money laundering, and illicit drug trafficking.
Coming Soon to a Town Near You: The Aurora Illegals Invasion
Last week, armed Tren de Aragua (TDa) gang members, illegal immigrants from Venezuela, pounded on apartment doors in Aurora, Colorado, and bullied residents.
This problem may spread to communities across our nation because Democrat politicians have opened our southern border to criminal illegal aliens — many have been flown in — and they are going to set up residences and headquarters in many places.
We are still getting some of the truth on these things because our nation is not yet fully a one-party nation, but the truth is becoming a rare commodity. Democrats seem to be obfuscating the truth, and they are confusing and gaslighting the public about this.
Some of the people living in the apartments were forced to leave by the gang members. However, Democrat politicians and Denver mainstream media played down the issue as if it were nothing. They also demonized Republicans.
Republican politicians and other media took the issue seriously. John Fabbricatore, a veteran and former ICE official, is running for Congress in the district where this took place. He wrote about helping a man get his mother out of her apartment.
“Today, Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky contacted me to assist an elderly woman who was being harassed by Venezuelan gang members in her apartment complex. The harassment and threats she faced were unacceptable, so we went in and got it done. Check out this shocking video showing armed, foreign gang members harassing members of our community. No more standing by
(The video has been taken down. Gee I wonder who!)