Tren de Aragua gang trash stunning Colorado Airbnb after hiring it for huge party

Oct 30, 2024

By Bethan Sexton For Dailymail.Com 12:02 29 Oct 2024, updated 14:03 29 Oct 2024

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A Venezuelan gang trashed a stunning Colorado Airbnb after hiring it for a huge party, police said.

The Evergreen property was left decimated after members of Tren de Aragua stayed in the home over the weekend, according to the sheriff's office.

Owner Karen Martiz, 42, said she was left speechless when she saw the state of the rental, which also contained packets of suspicious pink powder and 400 empty alcohol bottles.

Her furniture had been stacked in one room to make way for a 'rave', during which the guests had been smoking indoors and trashing the property, Martiz said.

'I just feel so disrespected, so violated,' Martiz told FOX31. 'We're just trying to share our homes, make a decent living and just, you know, have a normal life.'

The homeowner explained how she first became suspicious after hearing a lot more voices than anticipated coming through on property's doorbell camera.

'I just had a feeling in my gut that it wasn't going to be good,' Martiz said.

Upon arrival, she was greeted with the jaw-dropping scene.

'There was alcohol everywhere. We probably put away easily 300, 400 bottles.,' Martiz said.

She added that the occupants had also spat out gum throughout the entire property.

'I mean, I've never seen so much gum in my life,' Martiz said. 'So we scraped gum from my kitchen, from my living room. We have to change the entire carpet.'

She has since contacted Airbnb in the hopes the company can help reimburse her for the repairs.

The sheriff's office is also investigating and confirmed that it believes that members of Tren de Aragua were involved.

But for Martiz, the experience has put her off ever renting out the property again.

Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan street gang which has been in operation in the country since around 2012.

However, they recently gained notoriety in the US after footage from a security camera surfaced on social media showing a group of heavily armed men brazenly entering an apartment in the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado.

That prompted former President Donald Trump to vow to ' liberate Aurora ' from Venezuelans he falsely said were 'taking over the whole town.'

Police have called the reports exaggerated, but nonetheless acknowledged that it is investigating 10 gang members for involvement in several crimes, including a July homicide.

Among them is a Venezuelan who was arrested in another Denver suburb and accused of helping someone else steal a motorcycle and pointing an AR-15 at a tow truck driver who had asked him to move his car.

Another was suspected of stealing designer Gucci sunglasses in Boulder and has a multi-state criminal record, including for carjacking and vehicular assault.

Elsewhere, from the heartland to major cities like New York and Chicago, the gang has been blamed for sex trafficking, drug smuggling and police shootings as well as the exploitation of migrants.

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