{"id":2335211,"date":"2024-09-01T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aurora-colorado-mayor-says-they-will-clear-apartments-troubled-by-venezuelan-gangs-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:25:09","slug":"aurora-colorado-mayor-says-they-will-clear-apartments-troubled-by-venezuelan-gangs-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aurora-colorado-mayor-says-they-will-clear-apartments-troubled-by-venezuelan-gangs-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora, Colorado mayor says they will clear apartments troubled by Venezuelan gangs &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faurora-colorado-mayor-says-they-will-clear-apartments-troubled-by-venezuelan-gangs-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2335211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Aurora, Colorado, \u200cMayor Mike\u2063 Coffman announced plans to obtain an emergency \u2063court order \u200cto clear apartments that have \u2064become \u200cassociated with Venezuelan gang activity.\u2062 This decision stems from concerns \u200dover \u2062safety violations\u2064 and criminal \u2062activities linked to properties under the \u2064same out-of-state ownership, which existed prior to the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fla-gov-desantis-says-he-will-send-migrants-to-del\/\" title=\"Fla. Gov. DeSantis says he will send migrants to Del.\">recent migrant crisis<\/a>. The situation gained significant media attention following\u200d a\u2064 viral video showing armed men in an apartment complex, prompting reactions \u2064from high-profile figures like\u2062 Elon\u200c Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman characterized the issue as a &#8220;public nuisance&#8221; and noted that while there\u2062 has\u2063 been a considerable reaction from the community, gang activity is\u2064 believed \u2062to be isolated\u200d to specific\u200b locations. The Aurora Police\u200c Department is \u200dactively patrolling the affected areas and has formed a multi-agency \u2064task force to address\u2063 the\u200d gang situation. Interim\u2062 Police\u2063 Chief\u200b Heather Morris stated that, despite the presence of \u2064gang members, they do \u2064not have \u200dcontrol over the apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky expressed concern\u200b over the allegations of gang control, referring to past incidents of violence at the complex. The growing public\u2063 anxiety over \u200bthis \u2064situation has galvanized local authorities\u2064 to take action.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Aurora, Colorado mayor says they will clear apartments troubled by Venezuelan gangs<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1742772\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Mayor Mike Coffman posted his comments on his Facebook account Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman said the city will declare the apartments a &ldquo;public nuisance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; Coffman said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The video caught the attention of Elon Musk, who re-tweeted it on X with a one-word description: &ldquo;Insane.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Coffman said in an interview with KUSA that the reaction to the video was &ldquo;overwhelming&rdquo; the city&rsquo;s 911 dispatch and &ldquo;we&rsquo;re in some sort of environment of hysteria right now.&rdquo; Coffman said gang activity was &ldquo;isolated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky stated on her Facebook account on Aug. 28: &ldquo;And I repeat&hellip; A GANG HAS TAKE OVER entire apartment complexes in Aurora.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Aurora Police Department stated that its officers have been proactively patrolling areas where there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-u-s-federal-government-fuels-child-smuggling-and-trafficking\/\" title=\"How The U.S. Federal Government Fuels Child Smuggling And Trafficking\">suspected gang activity<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Interim Police Chief Heather Morris said police have talked to residents of the impacted apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s definitely a different picture,&rdquo; Morris said in a video the police posted on X. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying that there&rsquo;s not gang members that don&rsquo;t live in this community. What we are learning out here is that gang members have not taken over this complex. &hellip; We are making sure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harriss-rushed-campaign-plays-in-her-favor-democratic-strategists-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris\u2019s rushed campaign plays in her favor: Democratic strategists - Washington Examiner\">people aren&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t paying rent to gang leaders or gang members and that is not happening. &hellip; That&rsquo;s not the case.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Jurinsky responded to the police video with a comment on X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;m not sure who&rsquo;s running it then. You have the same police report I do &hellip; remember when the staff was beaten up and guns held to their heads by the &lsquo;cookie monster&rsquo; and crew? They were told never to return, and they haven&rsquo;t,&rdquo; Jurinsky wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;cookie monster&rdquo; appeared to be a reference to Tren de Aragua gang member Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino.<\/p>\n<p>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 &ldquo;Cookie&rdquo; or &ldquo;Galleta,&rdquo; which is Spanish for cookie.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Pacheco-Chirino has been in custody of ICE since July 28, police said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the coming days, we will provide a more comprehensive, public update with additional, accurate information about this criminal group and its affiliates,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officer-shoots-kills-man-who-opened-fire-on-san-antonio-airport\/\" title=\"Officer shoots, kills man who opened fire on San Antonio Airport\">police stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the U.S. Department of the Treasury&rsquo;s Office of Foreign Assets Control called Tren de Aragua an &ldquo;escalating threat&rdquo; 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1742772\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1742772\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora, Colorado&#8217;s mayor has announced plans to obtain an emergency court order to shut down apartments that have been affected by Venezuelan gang activity. Mayor Mike Coffman shared this information on his Facebook page on Friday night, stating that the city will label these apartments as a &#8220;public nuisance.&#8221; He noted that the issues linked to Venezuelan gangs are concentrated in properties owned by an out-of-state entity and that these problems with code violations and criminal behavior existed before the migrant crisis began. The situation gained international attention after a video surfaced on X showing armed individuals in an Aurora apartment complex, which has since garnered 5.7 million views. Elon Musk even re-tweeted the video with a single word: &#8220;Insane.&#8221; In an interview with KUSA, Coffman mentioned that police have not confirmed whether those in the viral video are members of the Tren de Aragua gang and described the public&#8217;s reaction as &#8220;overwhelming,&#8221; leading to heightened anxiety within the community. He emphasized that gang activity is &#8220;isolated.&#8221; Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky echoed concerns on her Facebook account about gangs taking over entire apartment complexes in Aurora. The Aurora Police Department has been actively patrolling areas suspected of gang involvement and created a multi-agency task force focused on addressing issues related to Venezuelan gangs. Interim Police Chief Heather Morris stated they have engaged with residents of affected complexes, clarifying that while there may be gang members living nearby, they do not control these properties or collect rent from tenants. Jurinsky responded critically to this assertion via X, referencing past violent incidents involving alleged gang members at those locations. One such individual identified was Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino, known as \u201cCookie,\u201d who was arrested for his involvement in a shooting incident earlier this year and is currently detained by ICE following previous arrests for aggravated assault. The police plan to release more detailed information about this criminal group soon. In July, U.S. Treasury officials labeled Tren de Aragua as an increasing threat due to its expanding operations across the Western Hemisphere involving human trafficking, violence against women, money laundering, and drug trafficking activities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2335212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/YL.calicrime.082824.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[22543,6024,4602],"class_list":["post-2335211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-aurora","tag-colorado","tag-mayor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/YL.calicrime.082824.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}