DENVER — Congresswoman Lauren Boebert hosted a community roundtable Friday to discuss recent reports of gang and criminal activity at Aurora apartment complexes, a story which Scripps News Denver has kept you informed about since city officials shut down one of these complexes due to a long list of code violations, which the property management company blamed on the Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua.
Since then, Scripps News Denver has reported on Aurora’s effort to investigate the gang’s presence in the area, the city partnering with the feds after it was revealed that “components” of the gang were operating in the metro area, and more recently, Denver7 reported on the arrest of three additional suspects with confirmed or suspected ties to the Venezuelan gang.
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Boebert, the firebrand Republican who represents Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, hosted the roundtable …