Dozen gang members busted in kidnapping, torture plot at infamous Colorado apartment complex overrun by Tren de Aragua

More than a dozen gangbangers likely linked to the vicious Tren de Aragua syndicate are in custody for allegedly kidnapping and torturing victims in an infamous Colorado apartment complex, cops said.Fourteen suspects were nabbed in what Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain called “without a question a gang incident” at The Edge at Lowry complex — which has been overrun by members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang.The group, a mix of men and women, ripped a migrant couple from their home at The Edge — then took them to another apartment where they were bound, pistol-whipped and beaten, cops said.The couple’s apartment was also burglarized, cops said.The victims called 911 around 2:30 a.m.Tuesday — after lying to their captors that they wouldn’t tell police they agreed to let them go.

One of them was stabbed but the injury is not life-threatening.At a press conference Tuesday, Chamberlain said investigators have not ruled out TdA’s possible involvement.He said the department is working with Homeland Security officials to track down additional suspects, but said it’s “incredibly hard” to identify TdA members because they lack “specific identifiers.”“We are not going to rest until we verify every individual in this incident is in custody, every individual who mistreated another human being the way these victims were treated is in custody and we will use again every resource at our ability to do that.We have proactively been focused on that apartment complex,” said Chamberlain.“As everybody here knows and as the nation knows this complex is an incredibly problematic complex.

It’s an incredibly crime-riddled complex,” he added, citing multiple recent arrests at the apartments following TdA’s takeover of the complex.Cops went both to interview the victims and “locked down” the complex after Monday’s kidnapping, said Chamberlain.The apartment complex became the subject of the national spotlight after surveillance footage su...