Armed crew storms Colorado apartment building overrun by Venezuelan gang spilling out from sanctuary city: wild video

A shocking video shows a crew of gun-wielding men storm through a Colorado apartment building overrun by the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, which has overtaken multiple housing complexes in the area.

In the clip, obtained by Fox Denver, a group of heavily armed men — including three with handguns and one with a rifle — can be seen in surveillance video entering another troubled apartment complex in the Denver suburb of Aurora and breaking into a unit.

The Aurora Police Department acknowledged it is “aware that components of [Tren de Aragua] are operating in Aurora,” saying that the police force “has been increasingly collecting evidence to show the gang is connected to crimes in the area.”

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Local cops declined to provide additional details — citing ongoing investigations. 

The video emerged after The Post identified Venezuelan prison gang “shot-caller” Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino, who had taken part in an assault and then a shooting at the Fitzsimons Place apartment complex in Aurora, which was recently shut down over code violations, which the owners said they couldn’t fix due to a takeover of the building by the gang, according to court documents obtained by The Post.

The apartment investor said they’ve “lost control” of several apartments in the area to the gang, which has been renting out units to migrants under “threat.”

“They were first hanging out around the property and creating a bad element that’s constantly there. And then they started taking over, quite a few months ago, they started taking over vacant units.”  

The latest footage was captured earlier this month, shortly before a shootout at the The Edge at Lowry apartment complex severely injured one person and damaged multiple cars, according to the local news station.

A separate clip taken at a different time shows two men bashing the lock of a unit with a tire iron inside the same housing complex, where migrants have moved in.

Recent crime at the building has left residents of The Edge on edge.

“It’s been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get out of here,” Cindy Romero told KDVR as she moved out of the building with her husband, Edward.

The couple said the violence began when a large number of migrants moved into the building.

They used five locks on their apartment door from top to bottom as well as a door security bar jammer.

“Every day when we come home, we have to do this every time we go outside to take out the garbage,” Cindy said, turning each lock. “Every time we go to bed at night. We have to keep like this so that nobody can kick in the door.”

Their car was one of the vehicles riddled with bullets after the shootout.

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The Romeros had been trying to move somewhere safer but said they couldn’t get the help needed to do so.

“We couldn’t get any help. We tried reaching out to resources, but they told us since it was not a condemned building, we would have to wait ’til that was the issue, but we didn’t want to wait for that,” Edward Romero told the local station.

They finally were able to pack up their stuff and leave with the help of Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky, who has been outspoken about the influx of alleged members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua in the suburb of 390,000.

“The city nonprofits have lined up to help the migrants that have come here but nobody is helping the Americans that are trapped in these apartment complexes,” Jurinsky told the news station. “[And] this isn’t just Americans. Other Venezuelans are being extorted by this gang.”

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The council member spoke to The Post earlier Wednesday about her community suffering from the spillover of Denver’s new migrant population — and resulting Tren de Aragua gang members.

“To our governor and to the mayor of Denver, I refuse to be silenced. I refuse to play the game of politics with you regarding this migrant crisis. And I will continue to speak up and speak out and help as many people as I can,” she said.

Denver, a sanctuary city, has received the largest number of migrants per capita across the nation, with more than 40,000 new arrivals since December 2022.

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Directly east of Denver, Aurora has seen a flood of migrants itself — and crimes attributed to Tren de Aragua, a prison gang originating in the Aragua region of Venezuela.

The gang has infiltrated multiple states and other big cities like New York and Chicago after crossing into the US from the southern border.

Multiple high-profile crimes including the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and the Big Apple shooting of two NYPD officers in June have been linked to members of the violent gang.