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Mike Coffman, the conservative Republican mayor of Aurora, Colo., said he was at home on Tuesday night watching the presidential debate and bracing for the worst. And then there it was again, before tens of millions of viewers: former President Donald J. Trump, describing Mr. Coffman’s Aurora, a sprawling suburb just east of Denver, as a city under siege, terrorized by migrants. “They’re taking over buildings,” Mr. Trump said. “They’re going in violently.” Mr. Coffman was contrite on Thursday as he told that story. After all, he had helped create the tall tale now sullying his city’s reputation. Before Springfield,...

A rising number of young women in New York City are joining gangs and getting involved in gun violence, marking a disturbing shift. Instead of attending prom and graduation, their social events now revolve around shootings and funerals. The surge in teen girls using guns has sparked a response from female crime fighters determined to bring them to justice and help them turn their lives around before more lives are lost. "Some of them are afraid. Some are forced to do it. Some of them are just curious, you know, they like the bad boys so they want to run...

It looks as though Tren de Aragua intended for the property to be a steady source of future revenue… trafficking and prostituting children, running guns, and extorting residents. Since all eyes have been on Aurora, Colorado and the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang terrorizing the apartment complexes, one of the property lenders hired international law firm Perkins Coie to conduct an investigation into what is really going on, and what these lawyers found is nothing short of heinous. From an article out at The Denver Gazette: Through violence and intimidation, a Venezuelan gang took over the Whispering Pines apartment complex...

That otter leave a mark. A woman was left crying in a pool of her own blood after getting savaged by a gang of otters in Malaysia. The unidentified victim had reportedly been jogging through Tanjung Aru Recreation Park in Sabah when she was beset by eight of the beasts, Viral Press reported. Accompanying footage shows the water weasel octet fleeing the scene after the attack.

A Colorado landlord has agreed to sell a troubled apartment complex that was taken over by the violent Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua. Landlord Zev Baumgarten has been fighting with the Denver suburb of Aurora over the Aspen Grove after the city accused him of allowed it to become a trash-ridden, gang-infested hellhole, according to records obtained by the Denver Gazette. Baumgarten is also the owner of another apartment complex where a viral video showed a crew of gun-toting thugs breaking into a unit, according to the Gazette. Baumgarten’s company has now agreed to sell, lease, or find some...

Amid news of an armed Venezuelan gang taking over an apartment complex in Colorado, new reports claim the same thing is happening in Chicago. “A group of 32 armed Venezualans (sic) took over an apartment building in Chicago tonight,” the popular Libs of TikTok account on X shared, posting an audio recording of the emergency 911 dispatch call. “First they did this in Aurora, CO and now Chicago? Which city will be next?” the post asked. “This invasion happened on Kamala’s watch.” Police were reportedly sent to the 6100 block of South King Drive on Monday after the call that...

A suspected Venezualan gang member who is not a U.S. citizen now has an ICE detainer hold after he was accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile female in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, according to Prairie du Chien Police Chief Kyle Teynor. The suspect, Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate, 26 of Venezuela, is believed to be a member of “Tren de Aragua,” a violent Venezuelan gang, Teynor wrote in the Sept. 6 press release. That’s the same gang that sparked massive outrage and headlines after a video emerged showing gang members at an Aurora, Colorado, apartment building. According to online court records,...

A Denver law firm, hired to look into an alleged gang takeover of an Aurora apartment building, says they found the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang began taking over the Whispering Pines Apartments in late 2023. Since then, the gang has engaged in violent assaults, threats of murder, extortion, strongarm tactics, and child prostitution as they have exerted a "stranglehold" on the Aurora apartment complex. That's according to a letter sent to Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman, Aurora City Manager Jason Batchelor, and the interim police chief that was obtained by CBS News Colorado. (snip) The property manager told the law...

There’s a new chapter in the saga of the Colorado apartment complexes that have been overrun, and de facto seized, by gang members who are suspected to be illegal aliens; they are in fact illegal aliens, part of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua cartel, and admitted to the United States by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, confirmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after four of the criminals were recently arrested. For some of the earlier developments, see an essay I wrote on the viral video of heavily armed gang members caught on a doorbell camera, and a follow-up item I...

Not only are blue cities allowing criminals to run rampant, but they are also denying it’s happening.Colorado Gov. Jared Polis dismissed anger over Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua taking over apartment buildings in the Denver suburb of Aurora, calling it “imagination” — despite video footage, police reports, and the city’s mayor confirming it’s happening. (Snip)After gaslighting everyone, they knew for weeks that Tren De Aragua was taking over buildings.Letters obtained by The Denver Gazette from the law firm representing CBZ Management — whose apartment complex in Aurora was shut down over what the city described as safety issues last month...

Dallas Police Department confirmed Tren De Aragua is in North Texas committing crimes.. The notorious South American mob best known for sex trafficking girls and women and exploiting their fellow Venezuelans, crossed the US-Mexico border in recent years .. mixed in with asylum-seeking migrants, and is behind a crime wave stretching from Miami to New York. Last week in Aurora, Colorado, gang members were seen in a video storming an apartment complex armed to the hilt with assault rifles and banging on doors. In North Texas, the criminal organization's presence had been rumored for at least a year, but for...

Aurora initially dismissed claims, but later acknowledged gang activities and arrests.. Letters obtained by The Denver Gazette from the law firm representing CBZ Management — whose apartment complex in Aurora was shut down over what the city described as safety issues last month — show officials were fully aware weeks ago of accusations that a Venezuelan gang had “forcibly taken control” of the property. In an Aug. 28 letter to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the law firm wrote that CBZ Management had been informed that “Aurora Multi-Family Projects have been forcibly taken control of by gang(s) that have immigrated...

DENVER — Four people with ties to a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, were arrested at an apartment complex on South Quebec Street in late August, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. FOX31’s Courtney Fromm confirmed with the sheriff’s office that during “proactive policing” on Aug. 21, deputies arrested six people at the Ivy Crossing Apartments near South Quebec Street and High Line Smith Way on a variety of charges ranging from drugs to stolen vehicles. The sheriff’s office told Fromm that the Ivy Crossing Apartments are not a safety concern and this investigation is ongoing. FOX31’s Vicente Arenas...

Migrant gangs are turning Aurora, Colo., apartment complexes into hellholes, and the Democratic governor is turning a blind eye. It’s an unhappy consequence of being a suburb of sanctuary-city Denver: Venezuelan migrants have spread from the Mile High City, with gang-affiliated ones claiming apartment buildings as their turf, terrorizing residents. One chilling video shows suspected Tren de Aragua members stalking through the complex with guns. Another, from the same complex, shows two men breaking into a unit with a tire iron. Mayor Mike Coffman confirmed that at least two buildings have been taken over, calling it an “organized criminal effort,”...

“Polis dismissed anger over Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua taking over apartment buildings in the Denver suburb of Aurora, calling it ‘imagination’.” I blogged about the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang taking over an apartment complex in Aurora, Co. I speculated that “Colorado’s governor — Branch Covidian, gun-grabber, and general tyrant wannabe — Jared Polis will almost certainly tackle this . . . now that it’s gaining negative national attention. He will likely issue a disapproving statement and let this continue.” I was wrong, though he may yet get there. As of now, he is dismissing the video evidence...

From George Orwell’s 1984 comes one of the author’s most memorable lines: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”Well, while the fictional party of Oceania illustrated a society in which the people were to dismiss reality in authoritarian submission, Colorado governor Jared Polis prefers to gaslight us, describing the “evidence of [our] eyes and ears” as a mere figment of our “imagination.” We don’t need to “reject” anything because it’s all just in our crazy heads!Yesterday I wrote a blog on a surreal and terrifying situation in...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis dismissed anger over Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua taking over apartment buildings in the Denver suburb of Aurora, calling it “imagination” — despite video footage, police reports and the city’s mayor confirming it’s happening. Polis’ press office offered the snarky statement Wednesday night in response to Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky — who told The Post the gang’s takeovers are tied to his policies. “The Governor has already let the Mayor know that the State is ready to support the local police department with assistance from state troopers and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation if needed,”...

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A violent Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua has spilled into Aurora, Colorado, despite the fact that the city wanted “no part” in welcoming so-called “asylum seekers” as a result of President Joe Biden’s open border policies. According to a report from the New York Post, Aurora has a population of 390,000 residents. Now, it’s become the base of operations for the gang, which has seized apartment complexes and instigated a crime wave. In February, the Aurora City Council reportedly passed a resolution 7-3 stating that it will not provide resources for illegal immigrants brought into the town...

By the end of Biden’s term in office, his DHS will have arrested and released or allowed into American via the CBP One App and released over 1,000,000 illegal alien Venezuelans. It has been reported beyond argument that Venezuela has emptied her insane asylums and prisons and directed those individuals to America. What has happened to Venezuela’s murder rate? Well, Venezuela now claims the lowest murder rate in the last 22 years! I wonder what the number of murders of American citizens are at the hands of illegal alien Venezuelans. I would need a lot more space on Substack to...