{"id":148933,"date":"2025-08-21T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148933"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:30:41","slug":"feds-bring-30-indictments-against-venezuelan-crime-ring-in-aurora-colorado-democrats-had-denied-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/feds-bring-30-indictments-against-venezuelan-crime-ring-in-aurora-colorado-democrats-had-denied-existed\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds bring 30 indictments against Venezuelan crime ring in Aurora, Colorado Democrats had denied existed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analysis by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, August 21, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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Democrats these days seem to have a penchant for creating crimes that don’t exist (Russiagate, Mar-a-Lago raid) while denying those that do.<\/p>\n

What has just transpired in Aurora, Colorado is a prime example.<\/p>\n

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Armed gang members in an Aurora, Colorado apartment building. \/ Video Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Federal officials this week indicted 30 suspected leaders and members of the brutal Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang. They were charged with drug and weapons trafficking and a \u201cbarbaric\u201d murder-for-hire plot.<\/p>\n

The arrests come “despite endless denials from Democrats that a suburb of Colorado\u2019s largest city was an operating base for a Venezuelan gang,” Joseph Curl wrote<\/a> for The New York Sun on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors say the investigation began in October 2024 when the Arapahoe County sheriff\u2019s office noticed a spike in violent crime at the Ivy Crossing apartment complex at Aurora, a suburb of Denver. The scene was captured in a video that went viral on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cTdA has brought its terrorism to the United States. TdA is real, it is dangerous, and we have made prosecuting TdA a priority in the District of Colorado,\u201d U.S. Attorney Peter McNeilly told a press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe charges tell a story of people selling guns and drugs. Lots of them,\u201d McNeilly said. \u201cThe affidavits which have been filed in this case also tell a story of a murder-for-hire plot and other crimes that the defendants were willing to commit, such as sex trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n

McNeilly added: \u201cOne of the people who offered to commit murders in this case bragged to the undercover officers that the people he would use to commit those murders were the very same people that we had seen committing crimes on the news in these apartment complexes in Aurora.<\/p>\n

When the video of the gang members went viral in 2023, Democrats rushed to declare that Aurora was not a gang stronghold.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no gang takeover in any part of Aurora,\u201d a state representative, Jason Crow, posted on X.<\/p>\n

The Democrat governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, said through a spokesman that the \u201cpurported invasion\u201d is largely a figment of one Republican lawmaker\u2019s \u201cimagination,\u201d condemning what he called \u201crecent misinformation campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the Sept. 10, 2024 presidential debate, Kamala Harris denied that there was gang activity in Colorado.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump mentioned Aurora twice in the debate, claiming that criminal immigrants were \u201ctaking over the towns, they are taking over buildings, they are going in violently.\u201d He vowed to \u201cliberate Aurora\u201d after reports emerged that TdA gang members were extorting apartment building residents for protection payments.<\/p>\n

The 10-month federal investigation, described by officials as \u201cthe biggest investigation\u201d of the TdA gang in the United States, led to the indictment of two suspects considered among those \u201cmost responsible\u201d for the alleged crimes \u2014 Luis Fernando Uribe-Torrealba and Luis Henriquez Charaima, both 29. The pair were arrested by Colombian authorities at Medell\u00edn on July 30 following provisional arrest warrants being issued by the United States.<\/p>\n

Five defendants face conspiracy charges in connection with a murder-for-hire scheme in which suspects allegedly agreed to kill two people for $15,000, with an additional $5,000 offered for delivering the victims\u2019 severed heads as proof. Of the 30 people charged, 24 are currently in federal custody. Two await extradition from Colombia.<\/p>\n

Curl noted: “The investigation yielded significant seizures, including 69 firearms \u2014 some equipped with machine gun conversion devices \u2014 and ‘pounds’ of narcotics. Several weapons have been linked to shootings, carjackings, robberies, and drive-by shootings at Denver and Aurora, according to authorities.”<\/p>\n

The Arapahoe County sheriff, Tyler Brown, reported significant improvements in the targeted area since the operation began.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach one of those 69 guns represents the saving of a life. Each ounce of narcotics taken off the street represents a life saved,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThis community has seen a 75 percent reduction in calls for service. \u2026 That is life-changing for the people in this community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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