Federal agents went door-to-door at a Denver apartment complex before dawn Wednesday, banging on doors and demanding residents show identification. Residents of the Cedar Run Apartments at S. Onieda St. After she provided her identification, she told The Denver Post, they asked which of her neighbors might be undocumented. And I would never want to put anyone through that sort of stress. Crystal Villa, another Cedar Run resident of three years, said federal agents woke her up around 6 a.
She showed a reporter Ring doorbell footage in which a man wearing a Homeland Security Investigations vest asked if she had drugs, if she was with anyone, if the agent could come into her apartment and if she spoke English. Villa had just purchased the Ring camera after hearing about the potential for ICE raids, she said. A playground behind the building was empty Wednesday as officers worked.
We have dozens of armed officers banging on all doors, like we are all criminals. And no one wants that in their homes. He presented his ID, passport and tribal documents and began live-streaming.
Conditions at the sprawling apartment complex have deteriorated in recent years since new ownership took over in , Strickline said. Now, conditions are practically unlivable, she said, with mold, pest infestations, lack of hot water and lack of heat. The area sometimes gets rowdy and loud, she said. In an unsigned statement issued Wednesday, Gelt Venture Partners , the company that owns Cedar Run Apartments, said the property began accepting immigrant residents in coordination with the city of Denver roughly 18 months ago, and that the city paid for several months of rent and move-in fees for the new residents in the program.
Ali Shihab, who owns a business that abuts Cedar Run, said the complex has recently become dangerous. Residents in the apartments would work in the street repairing cars, he said, taking apart engines and remaking them.
