The Aurora Police Department on Wednesday arrested 23-year-old Roiberth Daniel Mora-Marquez, a “documented Tren de Aragua gang member” who had been wanted on two outstanding warrants, police said in a statement on social media.
Mora-Marquez is the latest in a string of gang-related arrests out of Aurora in the last several weeks, after viral videos and right-wing social media influencers helped stir online rumors that Venezuelan gangs had taken over buildings in the city.
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Mora-Marquez is charged in Adams District Court with aggravated first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, third-degree assault and felony menacing, charges stemming from a dispute and assault over unpaid rent money on April 4, police said.
Aurora police arrested Mora-Marquez on April 17 in connection with that investigation. He was released on a $20,000 bond for that case earlier this year.
A warrant for Mora-Marquez’s arrest was later issued when he failed to appear in court, according to Aurora police.
Mora-Marquez also was arrested on an active warrant out of Arapahoe District Court on charges of felony menacing, illegal discharge of a firearm, harassment and reckless endangerment, charges stemming from a June 28 non-fatal shooting in the 400 block of Nile Street, Aurora police said.
Mora-Marquez is one of 10 Venezuelan gang members the Aurora Police Department released information about earlier this month. As of Thursday afternoon, Mora-Marquez was in custody at the Aurora Detention Center on a no-bond hold.
With Mora-Marquez’s arrest, the Aurora Police Department said there are now seven members of the Tren de Aragua gang in custody.
On Sept. 19, former President Donald Trump announced plans to visit Aurora and Springfield, Ohio, “in the next two weeks” during a campaign speech in Uniondale, New York, in which he implied that the two cities were dangerous.
“You may never see me again, but that’s OK,” Trump said to the campaign crowd.