Venezuelan Gang Takes Over Multiple Neighborhoods In Colorado

[Dwayne]

Yeah if I'm remembering correctly the Obama administration has the highest deportation numbers of any president.

I remember reading they have highest drone strikes too.

 

[LurkerSix]

Ok, now I found some more. This link (you should click and watch the video on it). Looks like this is problems at another apartment complex in Aurora and this is the kicker, its owned by the SAME management company that owns the other one that went viral. That first one got shut down because it was deemed unsafe to live in. Cops had to go to 100 units and let people know they had to leave and were now homeless because of it

This story was posted the 18th

https://kdvr.com/news/local/aurora-plans-to-address-neighbors-concerns-about-issues-at-apartment-complex/

Several neighbors of The Edge at Lowry, near Dallas Street and 12th Avenue, reportedly operated by CBZ Management, reached out to FOX31 with concerns about trash and alleged criminal activity.
“As of maybe three weeks ago, the trash just stopped getting picked up altogether,” said a neighbor who wanted to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. “We don’t want to see the problem get worse. We actually have seen an increase in gunfights in our block.”

FOX31 reached out to CBZ Management for a comment on The Edge at Lowry but did not hear back as of Sunday night.
A spokesperson for the city of Aurora said they are “going to address the trash and landscaping issues at those properties and do some degree of cleanup on Aug. 22.”

Looks like the building owner is a slumlord look at their BBB report. Major complaints started about them years ago

CBZ Management | Complaints | Better Business Bureau® Profile

View customer complaints of CBZ Management, BBB helps resolve disputes with the services or products a business provides.

www.bbb.org

CBZ management is trying to blame migrant gangs saying because of them they cant maintain their property, but these quality of life complaints have been going back years

'I don't even call this home': Aurora tenants speak out against 'unacceptable' living conditions

Residents who live at the Fitzsimons Apartments in Aurora say they're fed up with several issues and tell Denver7 they aren't getting help from management.

www.denver7.com

AURORA, Colo. — Several tenants at an Aurora apartment building reached out to Denver7, fed up with several issues they're facing.
Some families who live at the Fitzsimons Apartments, located at 1568 Nome Street, claim they haven't had heat in several months, and say they're also dealing with mold, rodents and more.

"I've told the managers since the first week I lived here about the mold," tenant Alyssa Alva said, who said she has a 10-month-old baby. "They have yet to come up to do anything about it. They hound me for rent, which they get their money every month. And I can't even get what I'm paying for."
A few residents sent us videos and pictures showing leaks, foundation damage, pieces of the ceiling falling off, flooding inside apartments, and piles of trash, to name a few.

"I don't even call this home. I call it the building," resident Tiffany Randon said, who lives at the building with her daughter. "There are families here. There are babies and they don't care. They're not doing anything to help these apartments ... you want people to pay rent and all that but you're not fixing the issues we need."
It wasn't until our news crew got to the building that we saw how bad the situation was, to the point where we had to leave the property because we felt unsafe.

"We have amenities that we can't even use," Randon said. "It's cold in here all the time. We have a thermostat over there that doesn't even work."
People who live at Fitzsimons Apartments are hoping this will help shed light on all of the problems they're facing so they can get help.
"What are we paying for?" Avila asked. "Do something. Do something that's right. Stop all this nonsense. This is ... my first place that I've had on my own. I'm not too sure of every right that I have."

In an email, the City of Aurora said code officers responded several months ago to a complaint of no heat and issued a notice. Officers returned for a follow-up and "verified the head was working."

The city said it is working to determine if there have been subsequent complaints.
Denver7 reached out to CBZ Management, who owns the building and the on-site managers for statements but have not heard back as of publication.

Look like i was right. Those apartments are in the hood and gangs been operating in that area doing fuck shit for years because its full of brown people & run by a slum lord, people didnt care. Only its just now really making the news because a machine is behind it to make it political

Aurora gang member sentenced to 18 years for shooting boy at Nome Park last summer - Sentinel Colorado

AURORA | Arapahoe County prosecutors last month quietly settled a case against an Aurora teenager who shot and severely wounded a boy in Nome Park last summer. The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office brokered a plea agreement with attorneys for 19-year-old Dangelo Domena on Sept. 3...

sentinelcolorado.com

 

[Freeman]

I can tell you’re not in spaces where non black immigrants or first generation be.


And yes. You need to be worry about folks of all colors from other countries.

Feels like you're too caught up about the immigrants instead of the governments using them as pawns to take the smell off themselves.

But that's peace.

 

[konceptjones]

Yeah if I'm remembering correctly the Obama administration has the highest deportation numbers of any president.

Basically. He deported more people than every president from the 1900's AND GWB combined.

 

[SeaSnake]

Feels like you're too caught up about the immigrants instead of the governments using them as pawns to take the smell off themselves.

But that's peace.

He do that all the time

 

[LurkerSix]

Cot damn, I just keep finding more.

Not posting the whole story

Concerns grow for Aurora apartment management company

One week after 300 tenants were removed from CBZ Management's Nome Street apartments, a life-threatening shooting occurred at another CBZ property.

www.9news.com

The Aurora Police Department (APD) responded to calls of shots fired near 12th Avenue and Dallas Street around 11:30 p.m. Sunday. Officers said when they arrived, they found a man with a life-threatening gunshot wound. He was later transported to the hospital.
APD's investigation continued into the morning hours with officers still on the scene 12 hours after the shooting occurred. Police said they found numerous shell casings outside The Edge at Lowry apartments at 1218 Dallas Street.
One tenant told 9NEWS he's lived at The Edge for 12 years. He said in the last year, he's noticed an uptick in violence with it becoming a weekly occurrence.


The city of Aurora said it's been trying to hold CBZ Management accountable for two years for its poor living conditions at the Nome Street apartments. Matt Brown, a city public safety strategic communications spokesperson, said in an email Monday, they have sent notices to the company for several code enforcement violations at its Dallas and 1357 Helena Street apartments in recent years.
Brown continued by saying, "The city is hopeful living conditions will improve at these properties, and that a habitability abatement will not be necessary."
The tenant who spoke to 9NEWS said he's noticed similar issues to the ones that led to the closure of CBZ's Nome Street apartment, including large pileups of trash.
He said the trash at his apartment has not been picked up in two weeks.
Brown said trash cleanup is the responsibility of the property manager and owner, but if a situation becomes a code enforcement violation, the city can step in. City contractors are scheduled for a trash and weed clean up this Thursday at both the Dallas and Nome Street apartments.
In regards to crime and violence, data from the APD transparency portal reports officers have responded to 132 calls for service within a 600-foot radius of the apartments since 2019.

APD said the portal updates every Tuesday at 5 a.m., which means Sunday's shooting is not included. Calls for service detailed in the portal include crimes like theft, arson, assault and burglary. Twenty-one reports were made in the area since the start of the year.
APD said it is still looking for a suspect in the Sunday evening shooting.
A spokesperson for the owner of the property did not have a comment.

Aurora Evictions Draw Attention to Owner's Neglect at Other Apartments

A former resident describes an Edgewater apartment complex owned by CBZ Management as "absolutely horrific."

www.westword.com

The City of Aurora is struggling to agree on where to point the finger after a 99-unit apartment building at 1568 Nome Street was shut down and its residents evicted with six days' notice. The property owner, CBZ Management, blames Venezuelan gangs, but city officials and former residents say the company has a history of neglecting its Colorado properties.

"CBZ owns three properties in Aurora, and there are code violations on all three," Jessica Prosser, Aurora's director of housing and community services, told media on Monday, August 12. "This property [1568 Nome Street] has been the most prominent, and the residents have been the most vocal about this property, and the calls for service have been highest at this property, as well."

Through a PR firm, CBZ Management blamed Venezuelan gangs for the code violations at the Nome Street property, claiming its employees were threatened and weren't able to return and manage the property.
Prosser said that the city has been helping the evicted tenants by paying their security deposits for new units and booking 85 rooms at ten different hotels. Tenants who still didn't have a place by Tuesday morning will be able to stay in a hotel on the city's dime until August 31, Prosser said.

"The city has been committed to providing resources the entire time prior to doing the posting," she added. "The property owner has been unwilling to provide relocation assistance."
The city is also taking legal action against Zev Baumgarten, who's listed in city records as a CBZ property manager, for eight building and vehicle code violations; he is set for a jury trial in Aurora Municipal Court beginning on August 27.

News of the eviction caught the attention of Aurora resident Elizabeth Ruddy, who lived in a CBZ-owned property for two years and reported many of the same issues as the residents at Fitzsimons Place. Ruddy lived in the Duchess Apartments, a CBZ property in Edgewater, from 2020 to 2022 and says she saw "writing on the walls, broken fences, trash all over the place, feces smeared all over the sign."

"There were homeless people sleeping in the hallways, there was trash outside of the dumpsters, the dumpsters wouldn't be emptied for weeks on end, we wouldn't get our mail for months on end," Ruddy says. "Needles, razor blades, broken glass in the parking lot. It was absolutely horrific."
According to Ruddy, her license plates and tags were stolen. For two years, she says, her neighbors complained that water from the apartment above them leaked into their unit, but it was never fixed. Like residents at Fitzsimons Place, Ruddy says she didn't see a property manager on site "for weeks at a time."

Ruddy describes seeing the news about the Aurora apartment complex as "infuriating." She hopes Aurora City Council takes claims of gangs with a grain of salt, and would rather they "investigate Zev Baumgarten and CBZ Management."

"They need to investigate why this property was able to be neglected and allowed to follow apart into such disrepair while people were still living there," Ruddy says. "Those buildings are hazards."

CBZ Management did not respond to questions about Ruddy's complaints or code violations at its other Colorado properties.

CBZ Management is based in Brooklyn and owns properties in Colorado and New York. The company's Colorado properties are spread out across Denver, Aurora, Edgewater, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
The same day as the evictions in Aurora, a class action lawsuit was filed against CBZ Management by tenant Javier Hidalgo on behalf of other tenants. According to the lawsuit, the property was closed because of "the landlords' gross failure to remedy conditions, rendering the building fundamentally uninhabitable."

The lawsuit identifies Zev and Shmaryahu Baumgarten as owners of CBZ Management, and demands that they provide "dignified alternative housing to every tenant they displaced" and repay "damages for the conditions they knowingly allowed to persist."
"We all can easily see through the Baumgartens' blatantly false and racist narrative that this condemnation was caused by gang violence," says the lawsuit. "The building was condemned, and these families and individuals were displaced, because their landlords refused to remedy horrific living conditions in order to maximize their profits."
Andrea Fuenmayor, an evicted resident of 1568 Nome Street, says that she's not sure if gangs have taken over the property, because she only came to her apartment at night to sleep. But she never saw anything that would make her think gangs are the problem, and she never felt unsafe living there, she says.

"The problem was that they gave us a unit to rent where one shouldn't be living," Fuenmayor says. "Why are they renting apartments if you can't live there?"

Some members of Aurora City Council believe CBZ Management's claim that a Venezuelan gang took over the property, however. The council's three-person Public Committee stated as much during a meeting on Thursday, August 8.
“None of us buy that story, that this is based on a code enforcement violation,” at-large councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky said. “The three of us believe there is a huge gang problem.”
In particular, CBZ Management and the Aurora council committee believe that Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organization, is responsible for 1568 Nome Street's deterioration. The group was reportedly behind a jewelry heist in Denver on June 24, and in July the New York Post reported that Tren de Aragua members could be targeting Denver police.

Councilwoman Stephanie Hancock, who is also on the committee, said at the August 8 meeting that the criminal group was responsible for a gathering of 3,000 people at an Aurora shopping mall after Venezuela's controversial and disputed election results July 28. Hancock argued that they were testing the police to see how they'd respond.

^^ This is who some of yall side with??



After reading this, "Through a PR firm, CBZ Management blamed Venezuelan gangs for the code violations at the Nome Street property, claiming its employees were threatened and weren't able to return and manage the property. ". It all makes sense why this has been all over the place. Hired a PR firm to spread propaganda to try to escape blame and yall ate it up.

 

[LurkerSix]

I'm not one to stereotype, but if you look up the owners of CBZ Management (Zev and Shmaryahu Baumgarten) they have the look of a lot of the slum lords in NYC. And when you look up their NYC spots, sure enough they are slumlords of those too. Has a bunch of violations and arnt rated too high in the reviews.

Shmaryahu Baumgarten Management Company | openigloo

Read and share reviews about Shmaryahu Baumgarten. They are affiliated with undefined properties and 138 units in NYC. According to NYC public data, they have undefined open violations, and no litigations.

www.openigloo.com

some of the reviews

Pros:
Quiet building, respectful tenants. nice apartments
Cons:
Building management can be lowkey racist? And not great at communicating with tenants about changes and work being done in the building

Pros:
general location is great. unit was very large and spacious
Cons:
the building has a rat infestation that is so far beyond repair it’s unfortunate. the lobby constantly smells like dead rodents, all throughout the day and night you hear rats running, scratching and squealing in the walls and we had 1 incident where a large rat was in our unit. the infestation is so bad that the dead rodents in the building cause our apartment to get infested with fleas.

Pros:
Locacted near buses and trains, 20 minute walk from prospect park
Cons:
Next door to a barbershop and clothing shop, noisy throughout the night, large gatherings and parties, hallways are filthy, garbage isn't contained, mailbox outside

Pros:
location is okay
Cons:
the landlord stopped paying the super months before we moved which meant that the trash piled up 5 feet high outside and brought in rats and roaches.
Advice to owner:
be better

Except the fire, it was fine
Former Tenant
Pros:
Bad bad bad management
Cons:
Water pressure, heat

Management Company = Slumlords
Former Tenant

Pros:
Beautiful old building
Great neighbors and neighborhood
Apartments are more spacious than the average NY apartment bc of when the building was built
Cons:
Management is neglectful. The building is dirty, rodent/pest infested and garbage isn’t disposed of regularly.

The management company has been known to harass its “older” (re: nonwhite) tenants in attempts to get them to move out

Looks like the NYC little hats are trying to stay on brand

 

[LurkerSix]

Last one.....I hope. I just happen to see this on a tab and forgot to post it earlier
This story was published august 7th, Imma just post key quotes and pics in a spoiler. Yall can click to read the full thing even tho it isnt that long

Aurora shuts down apartment complex, owners blame Venezuelan gang for building's condition

Wednesday, the City of Aurora posted eviction notices on every unit and in living areas where homeless people have been camped out for months. Next week, the city will shut off the water after months of nonpayment from the property owners, board up the building and fence off the entire property.

denvergazette.com

An Aurora landlord is blaming the city’s decision to shut down an apartment complex on a Venezuelan gang — a claim that city officials dismissed, calling it an "alternative narrative" to numerous code violations and the poor condition of the building.

The landlord said it could not resume normal operations at the site because of an immediate threat of danger from the gang that staffers and residents face.
City officials insisted that Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang known as TDA, was not responsible for issues that for months have plagued Aspen Grove Apartments at 1568 Nome St. and compelled Aurora to evict dozens of families.

On Wednesday, the city posted eviction notices on every unit and in living areas where homeless people have been camped out for months.
Next week, the city will shut off the water, officials said, because the property owners have not paid the water bill for months. The city will also board up the building and fence off the entire property.
That is Aurora's final legal step, according to a news release from the city.

The city moved to shut down the building, even as a spokesperson for CBZ Management — which operates the 98-unit complex near the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus — blamed gang activity as having inhibited its ability to care for the complex.

“Because we care for the safety of our tenants, and other members of the community, what we will say is that the issue of Tren de Aragua taking over properties and communities in Aurora means that we are not able to be present on this property, or any of our other properties in similar situations, also being impacted by gang presence,” a CBZ Management spokesperson said in an email to The Denver Gazette.

“We would like to be able to resume normal operations at our buildings, but we cannot do so under the threat of present and immediate danger against residents, staff, and management,” the CBZ Management spokesperson said. “This is an issue our city needs to face head-on with law enforcement and the further support of our state and country’s leaders to protect affected tenants, the surrounding communities, and Americans across the nation.”

As of Wednesday, apartments were available, with a 700-square-foot one-bedroom, one-bath unit renting for $1,200 a month, according to its website.

Aurora officials accused the operators of manufacturing stories.

“Instead of expending the resources to address the documented issues, CBZ and its stakeholders have hired a team of attorneys and, as we learned today, a Florida-based public relations firm to engage in diversionary tactics, fight the city in its city charter-mandated duties to enforce city code, and alternative narratives with many of you,” Ryan Luby, a spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department, said in an email to The Denver Gazette.

“The city has documented substantial, longstanding, unresolved code violations and other poor conditions at the property for the last few years.”
Violations include bed bug, mice and roach infestations, hundreds of instances of damaged doors, windows, sinks and cabinets, and mold, which was never resolved, the city said.

In a statement, an entity identified only as "an investor for multiple affected properties in Aurora" countered that it has "invested hundreds of thousands of dollars" in repairs and improvements to the building in the past several years.
The entity also said that the city fully signed off on the improvements after its most recent inspections.

‘Rapidly deteriorated’​

The Aspen Grove's owners have been accused of a laundry list of issues that include rodent infestations, sewage backups and trash pileups, water leaks, shattered or missing windows and lack of heat and electricity, Aurora officials said.

Luby said management has refused to address “the many significant code issues” and has stopped paying its water bill, making the building uninhabitable for tenants.

“Despite the city’s exhaustive efforts to work with the property owners and their property management group, CBZ Management, they have failed to address the violations and have been uncooperative,” Luby said. “Conditions at the property have rapidly deteriorated further in recent weeks.”

Luby said Tuesday that the city would send eviction notices Wednesday to tenants, who must vacate by Aug. 13. He declined further comment.

‘It's like a bad movie’​

In front of the dilapidated building, a man strolled along the sidewalk in broad daylight pulling on the handles of parked cars to see if any were unlocked.

Another walked by carrying a shiny hubcap.

Twenty yards away, a woman — propped on a chain-link fence — threw up in the shade.

On the first floor, inside the complex in what used to be the lobby, four squatters shielded their faces from the camera. Baseboard molding was pulled up from along the edge of the floor.

Several residents said they would often hear gunshots, some of which originated from inside the units, ring out on the property.

All without the watchful eye of ownership or management, they said.

Daniela Valera said she hasn’t seen the landlord, whom she knows as "Renaldo," since he fled the property in the wake of a shooting that injured three people.

Four people, including a 19-year-old, were arrested in connection to the early-morning shooting on Sunday.

Residents have reported people carrying guns, knives and machetes in the area.

Most of the residents are immigrants from various countries, including Colombia, Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Venezuela.

Eight-year-old Yonkei Keiber’s smile — the only one to be found in the complex Tuesday — lit up the dark corners in the building.

Marisela Keiber, the boy’s mother, said that is because he has severe cerebral palsy and “doesn't really know what's going on,” she said through a translator.

She worries that the two of them and her 17-year-old daughter will be out on the street once they're evicted next week.

Residents have until 8 a.m. Aug. 13 to vacate the premise.

Inside, the air was cool. While the landlords always paid her utility bills, Keiber said, they were also nowhere to be seen.

Outside in the parking lot, two men, in masks donned to dilute the stench, shoveled a mountain of garbage that spilled from dumpsters. Next door to the apartment complex Diego Quintero, who moved to the U.S. from Colombia with his family a year ago, raked cups, plastic bottles, clothing and condoms someone threw into his driveway.

“I go to work every day and come home to clean every single day," Quintero said. "It's like a bad movie."

Pics (keep in mind, this was the first building that got shut down

Spoiler

 

[Goldie]

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Of all the cities in America, Chicago has to be the last one where you would want all the street niggas to unite and be on your ass. Imagine if beef with a handful of Venzuelan migrants is what ends the feuding between the black people out there. Wouldn't that be an unexpected plot twist.

 

[SeaSnake]

Gang wars in Chicago? So surprising

 

[LurkerSix]

In before i see replies like this to that tweet: Now these damn migrants brought violence to Chicago??!?! It was a quiet & peaceful city until Biden let the migrants come in! O Lordy, i pray Trump comes and saves all the black people in Chicago being terrorized by them.

 

[LurkerSix]

a couple interesting replies to this post





So I looked this up,and hes right. Its only a few of these hood YT channels "reporting"/ repeating that it was a migrant that did this. And they all have diff thumb nails of what im assume is random Venezuelan criminals they googled

Goldie you getting ya Chicago news from a LA nigga on YT begging for subscribers and donations?


If you told me I couple years ago that in the future, hood niggas would be online ranting about immigrants & supporting Trump like racist middle aged white men, Id never believe you, smh

 

[BlackRain]

When I made that thread about the Republicans efforts to try and get more Black men on their side I didn't think they'd take the gang member route to get that support.

 

[PopY]

Gang wars in Chicago? So surprising

Typical Chicago nothing new

 

[IUTpt2]

Well, when you know the facts/documents you should know it's only a matter of time before these migrants (illegal aliens) are moved in a lot closer to you.

Glad I ain't drink this Kool-Aid. Just like these gang members in the Chi had to adjust, I think the gang members in Cali had to do the same thing. I came across some local Cali post saying how the Cali gang members were running to city council asking for help from them illegal aliens. I'd post it if I could remember that dude.

 

[Bed$tuy🇭🇹]

 

[ThaManMythLegnd]

This has been going on for 20+ years. We know it well out here in Cali. It's weird seeing so many brushing it off, these new migrants don't fuck with us. Latin America doesn't fuck with us in general and racist as hell.

 

[SeaSnake]

This has been going on for 20+ years. We know it well out here in Cali. It's weird seeing so many brushing it off, these new migrants don't fuck with us. Latin America doesn't fuck with us in general and racist as hell.

I mean I don’t really feel too sorry for y’all in the southwest and the west. That shit is northern Mexico. They been coming out there for like 80 years

 

[ThaManMythLegnd]

I mean I don’t really feel too sorry for y’all in the southwest and the west. That shit is northern Mexico. They been coming out there for like 80 years

The fuck you mean lol. Mexico didn't build up that area, and we're not welcome in Mexico. They have a whole ass country down there and didn't go through half the shit we overcame. don't get why they don't fix the corruption down there and make Mexico into a 1st world nation. Perfect climate, big port cities, and right next tot he US.

And don't get me wrong, I love Latinos but it's crazy has casual we are about being displaced by illegals in our own neighborhoods. Cities we fought to build up and build infrastructure in and just like that we are being pushed out.