An infamous Colorado apartment complex overrun by the vicious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang has been ordered to shut down because it poses an “imminent threat” to the public, a judge ruled.
The owners of The Edge at Lowry complex in Aurora were slapped with the emergency closure order late last week following a spate of recent violent ordeals — including the brutal kidnapping and torturing of a migrant couple who lived there.
The city had requested the closure as officials pursue criminal negligence charges against the building’s owners — Five Dallas Partners — amid the wave of troubling incidents, the Denver Post reported.
In granting the order, Judge Shawn Day ruled that the 60-apartment complex — which is expected to shutter next month — posed “an imminent threat to public safety and welfare.”
Officials had argued in court papers that the infamous complex had become “an epicenter for unmitigated violent crimes and property crimes.”
More than 60 criminal incidents — including violent assaults and armed robberies — have been linked to the complex since September 2023, the city said.
“The problem is a mismanaged location that allowed this crime to flourish,” Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said after the closure order was issued.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people will have to move out of the complex.
“The city is simultaneously working on a plan with Arapahoe County and other community partners that will provide relocation assistance to established tenants of the 60 affected apartment units,” city officials said in a statement.
The apartment complex was thrust into the national spotlight late last year after surveillance video went viral of multiple armed gangbangers forcing their way into one of the units.
The break-ins and shootings in and around The Edge forced several residents to flee, and outraged President-elect Donald Trump —
Meanwhile, nine suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers were charged last month following the kidnapping of a man and woman who lived at the complex. Seven others are still being investigated for their connection to the ordeal, cops said.
The group, a mix of men and women, ripped the migrant couple from their home at The Edge — then took them to another apartment where they were bound, pistol-whipped and beaten, according to police
The couple’s apartment was also burglarized during the ordeal, cops added.
“We are not going to rest until we verify every individual in this incident is in custody, every individual who mistreated another human being the way these victims were treated is in custody and we will use again every resource at our ability to do that. We have proactively been focused on that apartment complex,” the police chief said at the time.
“As everybody here knows and as the nation knows this complex is an incredibly problematic complex. It’s an incredibly crime-riddled complex,” he added, citing the multiple recent arrests at the apartments following the gang’s takeover of the complex.
