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Retort that Tren de Aragua claims are ‘racially motivated’ is untrue, Fabbricatore says on F&F
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Retort that Tren de Aragua claims are ‘racially motivated’ is untrue, Fabbricatore says on F&F

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice The retort that claims of the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua's activity in Aurora are just racially motivated accusations is untrue, John Fabbricatore said on Fox & Friends Weekend. "The governor has said it is racially motivated. Congressman Jason Crow has said it is racially motivated," Fabbricatore told the Fox & Friends host. "This is not racially motivated. These are things that are actually happening. People are actually being hurt and they're not doing anything about it. They would rather put it back on us and spin it toward a racial aspect." The former regional ICE director in Colorado has been consistent with his criticism of police leadership. "The police department needs to do something," he told Fox &...
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ICE confirms Venezuelan gang members arrested in Colorado shooting are in the country illegally
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ICE confirms Venezuelan gang members arrested in Colorado shooting are in the country illegally

By Sarah Akey | Law Enforcement Today Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has now confirmed that four Venezuelan nationals arrested in Aurora in connection with a late July attempted homicide are illegal aliens. According to FOX News, ICE confirmed the information in a statement, adding that the four men range in age from 19 to 24. Additionally, the men are also members of the Tren de Aragua gang that has been terrorizing Colorado communities in recent months. Dixon Jose Azuaje Perez, Nixon Jose Azuaje Perez, Jhonnarty Dejesus Pacheco-Chirinos, and Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirinos crossed the southern border illegally into the United States in 2022 and 2023. READ THE FULL STORY AT LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
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Colorado Christian receives handwritten letter from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
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Colorado Christian receives handwritten letter from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

By ERIC YOUNG | The Jerusalem Post Recognizing Colorado Christian University's public displays of support for Israel and for Jewish students, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu penned a handwritten note of gratitude to the college last month. “With much appreciation for your stalwart support for Israel, and with all best wishes,” Netanyahu wrote. The letter was given to CCU Chancellor Donald Sweeting while he and two scholars visited Israel to develop a new course on the political philosophy of the Hebrew Bible. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE JERUSALEM POST
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Denver school board considering lowering public comment time limits, restricting topics to agenda
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Denver school board considering lowering public comment time limits, restricting topics to agenda

By Melanie Asmar | Chalkbeat Colorado The Denver school board is considering a new approach to community engagement that would limit one way parents, teachers, and others can address the board while adding another. The new limits would apply to the board’s monthly public comment session, where speakers can sign up to address the board for three minutes. Under a proposed policy, each speaker would get just two minutes instead of three. But the biggest change would restrict speakers to talking about the topics on the board’s meeting agenda. No such topic limit exists now, and speakers often talk about a variety of issues ranging from the broad, such as school safety or mental health, to the specific, such as changes to their child’s bus route or a bullying incident at their sch...
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‘This is troubling’: Aurora officials heavily redact landlord eviction records, citing ‘work product’
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‘This is troubling’: Aurora officials heavily redact landlord eviction records, citing ‘work product’

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette Aurora officials heavily redacted public documents related to the eviction of 300 people at the Aspen Grove apartment complex last month, claiming the emails — to and from the city and the landlord’s lawyer — represented “attorney work product.” Under the Colorado Open Records Act or CORA, government agencies can assert certain privileges to withhold information. Examples include proprietary information, personnel issues, for a law enforcement investigation, or "work product," such as drafts. Will Trachman, general counsel for Mountain States Legal Foundation, doesn’t see how Aurora can claim a “work product” exemption on behalf of the landlord’s attorney. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Child trafficking educational summit in Colorado Springs to present solutions
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Child trafficking educational summit in Colorado Springs to present solutions

By Debbie Kelley | Colorado Springs Gazette Each year thousands of children in the United States are preyed upon, exploited, held captive, forced into labor and sold into sex and human trafficking markets. And with some half a million unaccompanied minor immigrants crossing the southern border and being released to adult sponsors under what critics call a fairly lax system, more are ending up in the same situation. “There’s a serious problem,” said Tara Lee Rodas, who recently became a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services whistleblower, when she reported that children were being handed over to gang members and people with criminal convictions. “I don’t believe people know there’s a problem, and the reason I can say that with confidence is that I had no idea what was going ...
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Scott Aviation CEO Kyle Scott dies in ag airplane crash
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Scott Aviation CEO Kyle Scott dies in ag airplane crash

By AgAir Update The founder and CEO of Scott Aviation and later CO Fire Aviation, Kyle Scott, lost his life during an aerial application flight Thursday, Sept. 5, while flying his AT-602 in Colorado. Scott, who founded and operated Scott Aviation, which operates several ag aircraft, also began aerial firefighting operations with a new start-up in 2019 with CO Fire Aviation, a successful aerial firefighting company providing SEAT aircraft on contracts in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado over the last several years in addition to his ag operation and FBO based at Fort Morgan Airport in Colorado. READ THE FULL STORY AT AGAIR
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‘That’s a takeover’ Cindy Romero says in describing how she lived under Tren de Aragua rule
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‘That’s a takeover’ Cindy Romero says in describing how she lived under Tren de Aragua rule

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Cindy Romero was a legal tenant of an apartment complex in Aurora she says was taken over by the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, a takeover some say is just a figment of her imagination. "I don't know what your definition of takeover is, but there's no managers on the ground, no maintenance workers allowed on the property, the housekeepers were getting harassed," Romero said. And then members of the gang began changing the locks to the building, she says. "If the owners aren't there, managers aren't there and they changed the locks on the outside of the building, that's a takeover," Romero said. Romero shared her story of surviving the Tren de Aragua takeover of her apartment building Friday during a roundtable discussion...
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Former Larimer County chief district attorney pleads guilty to sexual assault of court intern
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Former Larimer County chief district attorney pleads guilty to sexual assault of court intern

By Dillon Thomas | CBS Colorado A former chief district attorney in Larimer County has pleaded guilty to sexual assault after a former intern came forward to police. Dan Quinn, who served in the Larimer County District Attorney's Office in the late 1990s, was charged with having sexual relations with a county intern years before she turned 18. As part of a plea agreement to avoid jail time, Quinn pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to one charge of sexual assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor. Before the plea agreement was reached, Quinn was being charged with sexual assault of a child by a person in a position of trust. Before a judge, Friday, Quinn and his attorney went out of their way to notify the court they were admitting guilt to the charge of sexual assault but not to the...
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Leadership failures to blame for Tren de Aragua flourishing in Aurora, Fabbricatore says
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Leadership failures to blame for Tren de Aragua flourishing in Aurora, Fabbricatore says

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice A lack of leadership exists within City Hall administration and at the police department, and it can be credited for the growth in activity by Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua in the City of Aurora, former regional ICE Director John Fabbricatore said Friday during a City Hall roundtable. Fabbricatore, who holds the Republican nomination for the 6th District seat in the U.S. House, was joined at the roundtable by two members of the Aurora City Council, two members of U.S. Congress, former federal ICE Director Tom Homan, state representatives and senators, a county commissioner and four residents of Aurora. Missing were any member of management from City Hall or the police department. "Aurora has been underserved by their leadership in the...
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