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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI sometimes refer to them as the \u201cwoodpecker people\u201d because they travel from building to building an knock incessantly on the door until somebody answers. Often it is late, after midnight, and wakes me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several of the young men took to repairing cars in the parking lot and left discarded car parts in the driveway. One night, I walked Boru outside. It was about 9:30 and dark. Two men conversed in Spanish, of which I understand just a few words. One, in a braggadocio tone, boasted, \u201cI f***** up mi abuelo. I f***** up mi hermano.\u201d Then he pointed down the sidewalk at me. \u201cI\u2019m going to f*** up that guy.\u201d For a few weeks, I carried a baseball bat with me when I walked the dog at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In June, I came home late one night from trivia at the Denver Press Club and after Boru and I crawled into bed, head gunshots outside my window. The following day, I came home from a meeting at the employment office to find four police officers in the hall talking to my Mexican neighbor. A few minutes later, one of the officers knocked on my door. On a cell phone, he displayed a photo of a man, and asked if I had seen him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe was across the hall yesterday.\u201d \u201cDoes this have anything to do with the gunshots outside the building last night?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt does. If you see him again, please call me,\u201d the officer said, handing me his card. I keep it near, but haven\u2019t seen the suspect again. The police have been called to the building three other times in the past month. Perhaps more that I don\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, I had a knock on the door from a young girl about 12 wearing a Disney \u201cFrozen\u201d princess dress. She demanded, \u201cGoogle talk. Google talk.\u201d Her message was \u201cWe are selling homemade Venezuelan arepas. Will you buy some.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I said no, because I figured they tasted like the horrible smell coming from across the hall. And more importantly, if I\u2019m going to buy food, it\u2019s going to come from a kitchen licensed for food sales or catering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the weekend, one of my most highly regarded friends heard my tale, and warned me of the dangerous Venezuelan gang that is terrorizing other parts of Denver and Aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, 3Gen management sent a young man to my door with an eviction notice. I told him, damn straight I haven\u2019t paid. You haven\u2019t addressed any of the problems here. I refused to sign his verification that I had been served. It\u2019s time for me to move. Again. In 14 years in Colorado, I\u2019ve lived in 13 different places. I\u2019ve toured several other apartment complexes and still have yet to find the right fit. I have 10 days to find one and move out. Please say a prayer for me. The most reprehensible part of this is that these thugs are allowed to flourish. 3Gen brought them in and is complicit in allowing their criminal behavior. I should not have to stay in a place where my personal safety is threatened. But the cowardly property managers are not doing a thing to enforce their leases with the people who have caused the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PS – If anybody can find the fraudsters who hacked and stole my Facebook account to sell cryptocurrency to my friends, I’d love to have that information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/denvergazette.com\/news\/venezuelan-prison-gang-tda-in-denver\/article_615ffe66-5043-11ef-aed0-f7a3c199ad0c.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/adventureaday.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Police-IngallsSt-3-768x1024.jpg\")
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\u201cWe\u2019re looking for him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n