After months of Aurora, Colorado officials claim the city has no problem with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but new video shows the criminal group still runs two apartment complexes in suburban Denver to this day.
The footage shows a woman who just gave birth a week ago and says she was burned with boiling water during her pregnancy by gangsters who terrorized her and her husband.
The Guatemalan migrant is a resident of Whispering Pines Apartments, one of three Aurora properties that the bloodthirsty South American government has taken control of in recent months.
The new mother added that she had to give birth early due to the stress caused by living in constant fear for safety, as several units in her complex, including the people living directly across from her, are TdA, as the gang is known at the police. .
Tren de Aragua began trickling into the US, hidden among the 1 million Venezuelan migrants who entered the US during the Biden administration.
The infamous South American mafia, best known for sex trafficking girls and women and exploiting their fellow countrymen, now has tentacles stretching across the US to places like New York, Miami, San Antonio, El Paso and Dallas – as DailyMail .com first reported .
A Guatemalan woman who just gave birth is the latest victim of Tren de Aragua to come forward, claiming she and her husband were terrorized by the gangsters in their Aurora, Colorado apartment
‘They kicked in the door. They were tired of finding a way… they came and threw hot water on us,” she told apartment managers trying to root out the gangsters.
The victim, whose face has been blurred for protection, explained that the Venezuelan criminals first came to them months ago and demanded that they leave their apartment so that TdA could take over.
Rental properties are key to the syndicate’s growth in America and its ability to make money, law enforcement officials have told DailyMail.com.
“Prostitution makes a lot of money, and the problem with prostitution is that it brings in guys who they can then sell drugs to,” John Fabbricatore, former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for Colorado, explained in September.
“These guys come in, meet these Johns and shake them down. See if they want to buy drugs. They’ve started moving these girls around, and when you go into these apartments, you see these young girls. It’s bad.’
When the Guatemalans refused to leave their unit, they faced extortion, as the thugs said the couple had to pay them “rent” if they wanted to continue living there.
After the expectant couple refused, their front door was kicked in. They were then attacked with boiling water, forcing her into premature labor.
“I was never at peace,” the victim stated in the October 10 clip provided to DailyMail.com by law enforcement sources.
Exclusive images obtained by DailyMail.com show the inside of another apartment building in Aurora, Colorado, taken over by the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, where thugs described as the ’embodiment of evil’ literally mark their territory.
A federal gang expert explained that the graffiti is a mix of the well-known shorthand of Tren de Aragua, combined with regional signs, meaning that gangsters have personalized the graffiti with cues from the region of Venezuela they come from.
“Two of the eight individuals taken into custody were involved in a shooting in July at one of the specific properties in the city experiencing problems with TdA activity. In line with these arrests, we can now also confirm that criminal activity, including TdA issues, has significantly affected these properties.”
‘Do you want to report it to the police? I can’t kick these people out unless you press charges,” the apartment management urges her with the help of a Spanish interpreter.
She agrees to talk more, but only from the privacy of her apartment so that the TdA members who live directly across from her are not listening.
The gang’s presence in Aurora made international headlines after images emerged in late August of several gunmen storming units on the outskirts of Lowry Apartments.
As outrage over the images spread across the country, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman denied that Aurora had a gang problem and downplayed the gang’s presence in the city.
The Edge at Lowry Apartments was the second property taken over by the South American gang
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman said “several buildings” in the city have fallen “into the hands of these Venezuelan gangs”
“There is a tendency to exaggerate and say that this incident, which takes place in three buildings of the same owner and with the same people, the concentration of Venezuelan migrants, the city of Aurora… that the entire city is unsafe,” he said . the Denver7 interview.
He further said that they addressed this by making arrests, but months later many TdA gangsters are still running these complexes.
A law enforcement source described the Edge of Lowry being overrun by TdA members and spoke to several prostitutes in Whispering Pines trafficked by the crime ring.
Neither Aurora’s mayor nor police responded to our requests for comment.