AURORA | Aurora police have arrested and jailed a 23-year-old man investigators say is linked to a Venezuelan gang and was wanted on two outstanding warrants for gunfire and assault charges from earlier this year.
The Aurora Police Department Gang Intervention Unit arrested Roiberth Daniel Mora-Marquez, 23, Wednesday night, police said in a statement Thursday.
He faces assault, kidnapping and menacing charges in what police said was an April 4 dispute over unpaid rent money for undisclosed accommodations somewhere in the 1600 block of Lima Street in northwest Aurora.
Details from that case were not available at press time.
Police said Mora-Marquez was arrested April 17 in connection with those allegations and posted a $20,000 bond for his release.
“A warrant for Mora-Marquez’s arrest was later issued when he failed to appear in court,” police spokesperson Joe Moylan said in a statement.
Police also arrested Mora-Marquez in connection to an Arapahoe County warrant for a separate case involving allegations of felony menacing, harassment, and firing a gun at a house on the 400 block of Nile Street on June 28.
In that case, Mora-Marquez and an adult woman were living in a house in the 400 block of Nile Street with another 44-year-old man, who owned or rented the house.
The woman said she and Mora-Marquez had lived in the house for about two weeks when the man and Mora-Marquez got into a dispute, according to an arrest affidavit filed with Arapahoe County courts.
The woman said she and Mora-Marquez had been in an intimate relationship for about three weeks, and have been living in her car.
The couple moved in with the older man about two weeks prior to the shooting.
On the day of the shooting, the man told her and Mora-Marquez they could no longer stay in the house.
Mora-Marquez and the woman drove there, and he became upset.
“Mora-Marquez yelled and struck her while they were in the vehicle,” police reported in the affidavit. “During the altercation, (Mora-Marquez) pulled out a handgun, reached over her, and fired rounds at (the house).” The woman said “she had to lean back to avoid being harmed.”
Mora-Martinez then drove a short distance away, stopped the car, pulled the keys from the ignition and walked away, leaving the woman behind.
On Aug. 6, police said the older man identified Mora-Marquez from a photo line-up.
Police said Mora-Marquez has been linked to the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
“Mora-Marquez is one of the 10 documented TdA gang members the Aurora Police Department released information about earlier this month,” police said in a statement “As of Thursday afternoon, Mora-Marquez was in custody at the Aurora Detention Center on a no bond hold.”
This fellow has to live with other people yet finds $20k to get out of jail? I’d follow that lead if i were a police detective.
He probably didn’t. He probably used a bondsman.
Like everyone else does.
And yet you still contend the Venezuelan gang problem is an overreaction. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. More like “cover-up.” But go ahead and keep voting for the same fools who allowed the gang members to set up shop here in the first place. They truly do have your best interests at heart. These are the same ones who say there’s no real problem here. Try telling that to the countless people who have been killed, rape, robbed, and extorted from. Wait, first you’d have to see them as actual, real people, but narcissists can’t do that.
I see you’re completely against the first amendment. Censoring comments that go against your liberal agenda. What has America come to?
Still think guys like “pissed off American” have a grip on reality?
Still think your elected leaders are being honest with you?
According to Jeff Ryan and Debra MacKillop, these people don’t actually exist, because they aren’t wearing their “Tren de Aragua” spirit shirts while getting a Coke from the 7-11 at Nome and Colfax.
Where are OUR protectors?? Looks like our Colorado leaders have decided to ignore the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), and wait for them to become so entrenched in Colorado they can’t be stopped. Governor Jared Polis, take notice of Texas Governor Greg Abbott! Who designated TdA as a foreign terrorist organization, directing DPS to elevate them to a Tier 1 gang and to create a TdA Strike Team that will identify and arrest TdA gang members.
How dangerous is TdA? “The U.S. State Department has announced reward offers of up to $12 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the gang’s leaders.