Aurora cops expressed concern about Tren de Aragua last year but officials gaslit them: leaked emails

Cops in Aurora, Colorado were concerned about migrants in the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua terrorizing the city as early as last year — but the department’s brass and city officials continued to downplay the situation, according to leaked internal emails.The correspondence, which Aurora Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky shared on X, appears to show that the Aurora Police Department was aware of TdA’s presence in the area as far back as November 2023 and that some cops were growing frustrated with the city’s response to the gang’s crimes.The Post was the first to report on TdA’s infiltration of the city, its takeover of several poorly-maintained apartment complexes and its top leader, nicknamed “Cookie,” who was involved in at least two violent crimes.Many of the emails attested that TdA was known to be taking over several apartment complexes across the Centennial State city even as officials publicly downplayed the situation.One fed-up sergeant in the department’s homicide unit fumed in an Aug.

22 email that “many people in this agency have been denying the existence of TdA and saying the whole thing is blown out of proportion while at the same time, the patrol won’t respond to these locations without an armored vehicle.”The officer then expressed a fear that “all hell is going to break loose” if Aurora officials continued to bury their heads in the sand.“As soon as this group kills an innocent person all hell is going to break loose and I would hate for us all to be exposed for not sharing information with each other and/or not being able to show that we have dedicated proactive units and investigative units directly impacting this problem.”The Post was not able to independently verify the veracity of the emails.In response, the cop was told by another sergeant in the department’s gang and robbery unit that “we were told” there was a list of 120 “vetted” gangbangers — but that they were struggling to get any more...