AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A pile of trash that has been sitting outside of a complex of townhomes in Aurora has residents concerned, both about the eyesore and for the community’s safety.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office tells FOX31 it began when it was called to execute a court-ordered eviction at a residence near East Mexico Avenue and South Idalia Circle in Aurora. Deputies quickly found out that the person who lived in that home was a hoarder, while removing everything from their home.
Neighbors like Jeremy Lefever, who’s lived there for 26 years, say they had no idea.
“Would’ve never expected anything like this to come out of her unit ever,” Lefever said. “Our units aren’t that big, so she must’ve been crawling over top of the stuff inside there.”
Garbage bags lay everywhere, filled with everything you can imagine. Flies fill the air from the smell and some old food.
“They saw rats and mice scattering as they were going through,” Lefever said.
He says they even found an urn with the woman’s father’s ashes in the yard. All of this sitting right at his doorstep.
“When I went out the door this morning, I could barely get the door open,” Lefever said. “There was so much stuff on our front porch.”
Lefever says he’s seen people looting things out of the pile, many overnight with headlamps. He says he even saw kids rifling through with no shoes on, concerned for their safety.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office told FOX31 that clean up now falls to the unit’s new owner to clear the garbage, which they’ve begun with a single dumpster out front.
“Somebody had made a comment that they thought it would fit in one roll-off. No way,” Lefever said. “Whoever owns that unit now needs to get this all cleaned up and out of here ASAP because it’s theirs.”
While FOX31 was at the complex, a small group of people was working to clean out the space with a couple of wheelbarrows and a single dumpster. That crew said they were hired by the unit’s new owner.
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