Ruthless armed Tren de Aragua gangbangers menace residents in Colorado apartment complex, chilling video shows
A gun-toting crew of nine suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers unleashed chaos at a Colorado apartment complex — just one year after the notorious Venezuelan gang seized properties across the state and sparked a wave of violent crime.
Chilling doorbell footage captured the disturbing moment the violent thugs brandished firearms and repeatedly knocked on the door of a Potomac Street apartment in Aurora on June 9, Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain shared during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
The heavily armed group pestered the complex for about a minute before they left, the footage showed.
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'There is, without question, gang involvement in this,' Chamberlain said, explaining how the terrifying incident is 'very reminiscent' of what the city experienced in the past at another apartment building.
5 Surveillance video still image of a person in a pink hoodie holding a gun outside an apartment in Aurora, Colo.
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'I look at these individuals like a cancer — not a benign cancer — they are a cancer that is causing victimization, they are a cancer that must be addressed, they must be cut out and they must be stopped.'
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Two of the gang's members, Larry Galbreath, 23, and Jordan Green, 22, have since been arrested, as police work aggressively to pursue the remaining individuals involved, who are all believed to be Venezuelan.
5 Larry Galbreath was arrested and charged for menacing with a firearm.
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Cops also recovered a gun matching one seen in the video from a tatted and marked Galbreath, who also lived in the same building his crew allegedly targeted.
'I want everyone to understand and to know that we are ahead of this,' the police chief assured.
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5 Surveillance video still image of a person holding a handgun.
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'This isn't something that we are reacting to — this is something that we are proactively addressing with everything that we possibly do, everything that we can possibly achieve, and everyone we can hold accountable, we will do so.'
Aurora — a quiet bedroom community with a population of 395,000 directly east of Denver — emerged last year as a stronghold for the ruthless gang, which gained national attention after wreaking havoc on migrant residents living at apartment complexes that were commandeered.
5 Surveillance video still image of armed individuals at an apartment complex.
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Chamberlain said the individuals allegedly targeted in last week's harrowing attack had moved to the area just two days earlier from Venezuela, adding he was grateful they didn't open their door.
'I shutter to think what would have happened to them,' he said.
'They weren't there with coffee cake and a welcoming tray. They were there with guns. But unfortunately, that is what we have seen at that apartment complex and what we've been dealing with.'
Chamberlain said the police department has responded to 44 calls for service at the complex, related to 12 separate incidents, including threats made to tenants, shots fired and squatting, since August 2024.
5 Chief Todd Chamberlain speaking at a podium.
Aurora Police/YouTube
Police are now working with state and federal partners, including the Department of Homeland Security and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to catch the remaining perps.
The community was also encouraged to come forward with any information on suspected gang activity.
'Aurora is not taken over by gang members by any stretch of the imagination,' Chamberlain said.
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'We will not rest until no one left in that apartment complex or any other apartment complex in Aurora is victimized the way that we have seen past victimization occur.'
Tips relating to the case can be sent to Metro Denver Crime Stoppers.
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