14 suspected gang members arrested in Aurora, Colorado

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Authorities in Aurora, Colorado, have reported that police have detained 14 people at a local apartment complex taken over by Venezuelan gang members.

“This is without question a gang incident. I don’t know which gang they are affiliated with yet,” the Aurora police chief said at a press conference, adding that “there is a high assumption that they may be affiliated with the TdA [Tren de Aragua] gang.”

Around 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, officers responded to The Edge at Lowry Apartments, located in the 1200 block of Dallas Street, following reports of an armed home invasion involving kidnapping and assaults, according to the Aurora Police Department.

Aurora Police Department Chief Todd Chamberlain said during a Tuesday news conference that 13 to 15 people, mostly males with some females, entered an apartment where two people were inside. Police say the suspects took the migrant victims to another apartment at the same location, where the victims were “threatened and bound.”

One of the victims, a man, sustained a stab wound but is expected to survive, police said. Both victims are still at the hospital for treatment of their injuries.

At some point, authorities said, the suspects released the victims, who then called 911.

“They were pistol-whipped, they were beat, they were mistreated,” Chamberlain said. “So does that fall in the category of torture for me? Yeah, it does.”

“We have focused on that area extensively,” Chamberlain said, referring to the apartment complex.