Venezuelan Migrant Gang Tren de Aragua Beats Aurora Apartment Worker: Video

A Colorado management company shared brutal surveillance footage and a photo of a bloodied employee to illustrate its ongoing problem with a violent Venezuelan migrant gang.

Brooklyn-based CBZ Management, which operates 11 resorts in Colorado, said members of Tren de Aragua controlled entire apartment buildings in Aurora by threatening its employees and tried to extort the company for a reduction in the rent in exchange for continuing to operate the business. properties.

One of the company’s buildings made national headlines earlier this year after surveillance footage showed a group of heavily armed men, allegedly members of the Venezuelan prison gang, walking through The Edge at Lowry and speaking in Spanish.

The most recent footage shows one of CBZ’s representatives being assaulted after refusing to accept a bribe at the Whispering Pines resort in late 2023, the company told Fox 31.

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CBZ Management shared this photo on X, allegedly showing one of their employees after he refused to accept a bribe from gang members at one of the company’s compounds in Aurora, Colorado. (@Cbzmanagement on X)

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The man was beaten so badly that he required hospital treatment, the company said.

“I think they were trying to kill me. I don’t know how I got out, but I got out,” the rep, whose bloodied photo was shown by X’s management company, told Fox 31.

After the attack, the company said, the employee began receiving threatening text messages containing his home address and his wife’s name.

A police report on the incident obtained from the 18th Judicial District Court by Denver 7 shows that one of the company’s property managers was assaulted by Yoendry Vilchez Medina-Jose, a documented member of the Tren de Aragua, in November 2023. It was not immediately clear if that was the case. same incident.

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Alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang allegedly invaded an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado, charging rent in exchange for “protection.” (Edouard Romero)

After the incident, the company said its representatives met with members of the FBI. The agency reportedly confirmed that Tren de Aragua members were behind the text messages and building buyouts, but that the matter was only a “blip on the radar” due to the Tren’s growing national presence. Venezuelan gang.

The FBI could not immediately be reached for comment.

CBZ also said the gangs took over a tenant’s apartment while he was on vacation, forcing the tenant to find new housing when he returned home.

“Gangs have taken over several of our properties in Aurora, Colorado,” the company wrote in a thread on X last week. “In an attempt to discredit this fact for political purposes and to avoid government accountability, some have spread false information about our situation.”

The company said it had to pull workers from its apartment complexes in Aurora.

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“Despite clear evidence, many still deny the reality of the situation, sometimes using us as scapegoats. This is why we are no longer silent,” the company writes. “We will continue to counter the lies with simple facts and evidence. Yes, gangs have taken over our apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and the government has done nothing. This is the real story .”

The Aurora Police Department told Denver 7 it has “yet to obtain evidence of a gang takeover at any CBZ property.”

“We have recognized that it is likely that gang members have and/or reside in CBZ properties, but as you know from experience, you could say the same thing about many different gangs and many different properties in the area metropolitan area,” a representative said. told the outlet.

Similarly, an Aurora spokesperson told the New York Post that the company’s claims were “exaggerations.”

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“These delinquent real estate owners, managers and/or “investors” are conveniently forgetting that their own bank lenders have taken them to court in recent weeks, where a judge has ordered some of their problem properties into receivership,” said the spokesperson. “This means that a judge has given legal authority to a third-party receiver to actually manage the properties, and the owners will be obligated to compensate.”

Former President Donald Trump visited Aurora last Friday and linked the city’s alleged gang problems to the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies.

According to Denver 7, CBZ Management has a history of citations dating back to 2020, with violations ranging from mouse infestations to dozens of illegally parked cars to ceiling damage. Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman called the management company “slum lords,” KDVR reported.

“It’s a little late to play the Venezuelan gang card,” Coffman said. “Certainly there are other areas of the city that we’re looking at that we’re concerned about. But the problems in this building certainly predate any problems with Venezuelan gangs.”

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CBZ Management said the city “invented ‘code violations'” to conceal the foreign gang’s presence, according to its posts on X. The company said it “had a perfect inspection in 2022 and 2023” and that any violations have been “addressed”.

“The only violations that were not addressed were when the gangs took over and we did not want our six on-site employees working there, for their safety,” the company said.

Media and government officials are downplaying the impact of Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, a woman who left her apartment earlier this year because of the increasing violence told Fox News Digital.

“I feel like it’s a slap in the face,” Cindy Romero said. “How many gangs can we have in Aurora? How many properties can we take over? How many people, who are citizens who pay their bills, is it OK to displace?”