Tag: Tda
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FBI offers $3M for capture of TdA gang leader on 10 Most Wanted List
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Federal authorities have added a man alleged to be a leader of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list, offering a $3 million award for the fugitive’s capture. Officials believe TdA gang leader Giovanni Vicente “El Viejo” Mosquera Serrano,…
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Aurora police investigate possible TdA activity at apartment complex
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Aurora police investigated a chain of incidents at an apartment complex that possibly involved members of Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, Chief Todd Chamberlain said at a Tuesday news conference. The investigation stemmed from a video released to police by a resident of…
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Aurora issues 7 warrants for arrest of CBZ Management owner after failure to appear
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An owner of CBZ Management, which has been in the spotlight in the wake of a Venezuelan gang’s alleged takeover of several of the company’s Colorado apartment properties, faces seven warrants for his arrest after failing to appear in court last week. Zev Baumgarten faces…
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Legal troubles mount for CBZ Management over metro Denver apartments
Legal troubles continue to mount for CBZ Management, the company behind several troubled apartment complexes in the metro Denver area, which blamed deteriorating conditions at two of its apartment complexes in Aurora on a Venezuelan gang. Peter Svaldi, a former tenant at the Courtyard on Vine at 1399 N. Vine St., filed a lawsuit earlier…
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Trump claimed Aurora is a ‘beautiful town destroyed’ by illegal immigration
President Donald Trump once more cited Aurora, Colorado in his address to Congress on Tuesday night, calling the city a “beautiful town destroyed” by illegal immigration and a transnational gang now operating in metro Denver. Blaming the “open border policies” under the Biden administration, Trump referenced Aurora as a city that “buckled” under the influx…
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DEA, ICE and FBI arrest 90 in Colorado in series of raids, targeting Tren de Aragua
Federal narcotics and immigration agents arrested about 90 people over the past two weeks in a series of raids that ramped up in Colorado and elsewhere in the country following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. A federal spokesperson said “quite a number” of the 90 are connected to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang…
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Aurora posts closure notices at The Edge at Lowry, brings in relocation help
Aurora officials have posted closure notices at The Edge at Lowry apartment complex Friday, notifying tenants that they must vacate the complex as soon as possible and no later than 8 a.m. Feb. 18. The posted notices are the city’s next steps in closing the five remaining buildings that CBZ Management controls at The Edge…
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Mike Coffman blames Mike Johnston for Venezuelan TdA’s gang foothold in Aurora
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman effectively blamed Denver Mayor Mike Johnston for the “national embarrassment” that his city suffered following reports of violence by a Venezuelan gang amid the national debate over how best to confront America’s illegal immigration crisis. In an opinion piece that ran in The Denver Gazette on Monday, Coffman said the Johnston…
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Police: Victims tortured and kidnapped by TdA gang members because of cellphone video
The home invasion, kidnapping and torture at a troubled apartment complex in Aurora — perpetuated, the local police chief said, by a Venezuelan gang at the center of a national firestorm over illegal immigration — began with a cellphone video showing two women fighting. That video, the police later said, included “a number of other individuals in…
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Timeline of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in Colorado
The Denver Gazette compiled together a timeline of events surrounding the three apartment complexes in Aurora operated by CBZ Management and taken over by a Venezuelan gang, using records obtained either through sources or formally under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) as well as court documents. Tren de Aragua, or TDA, is a Venezuelan…