The Lakewood residents stated that they repeatedly reported problems with the house in front of weekend fires | Crimes and justice

West Metro Fire Rescue reacted to a burning house in Lakewood on Saturday evening – a plot of land that the neighbors have complained about for months through the authorities.

A day later, the fire brigade reacted to another fire in the same house.

The residents said they repeatedly said at Lakewood officials about the house, where the neighbors claimed that they had seen all possible problems since September.

“We are constantly hearing shots. We have videos from which you go to the toilet in front of the garden. You smoke drugs in your front garden,” said Lindsay Driver, a nearby resident.

The house, just a few meters from Jefferson County Open School, has two motorhomes in the front yard, a large stack of objects, several cars and bicycles.

The fire started on Saturday evening around 8:30 p.m. in a background, which, according to a social media post by West Metro Fire Rescue, was converted into living space. Nobody was injured during the fire and was deleted in the nearby house on the same property around 10 p.m., the fire brigade said.

Several commentators in Reddit, Nextdoor and Facebook claimed to explode a dandruff behind the garage before the fire started. West Metro Fire Rescue refused to comment on the cause of the fire until after his investigation.

“The explosion completely shaken my house,” said Driver.

“We pulled that this area would develop and get better. It gets worse. It scares me,” she added.

On Monday morning around 1:30 a.m., the fire brigade returned to the garage to extinguish another fire. The cause of this fire is also being investigated, the authorities said. According to the Lakewood Police Department, a suspect was arrested on suspicion of arson.

“I've never been to one who is a police officer, but I just can't do it anymore. It is constant,” said another resident near the Denver Gazette. The resident asked to stay anonymous and to fear their security. “There are shotguns, there are handguns.”

“It was still getting worse. It was a complete chaos,” said the neighbor about the fire.

The resident informed the Denver Gazette that she had reported about six times for every agency since September the US drug authority, the Lakewood Police Department and the city of Lakewood.

She claimed that the Dea never replied. The Lakewood police visited the area a few times, but did nothing essential in terms of complaints, she said. The city's code enforcement department has closed its case, added it.

Driver, the other neighbor, also said that she did not belong from the city of the city of the city, while the police told her that they couldn't do anything because some of the people are tenants.

“Why isn't it taped?” Driver asked about the garage. “Is there not dangerous material? I don't understand.”

“There were many calls or answers from our code enforcement officers in relation to this unit,” said John Romero, public information officer of the Lakewood Police Department. “We communicate with our building inspectors so that you can publish the buildings as residents, and you can then start the process to legally condemn ownership due to the fires at the weekend.”

The resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the problems began on September 2 and claimed that a shootout had taken place in front of the house. The motorhomes and the garbage then stacked and grew until Saturday, she said.

She also claimed that her child had stepped on drug material.

“My child stepped on a burned film that had burns everywhere,” she said. “That was the highlight.”

“I'm so afraid to go outside. I do everything you told me. I am vigilant. I was in favor with the reporting,” she added. “I feel absolutely hopeless. I have the feeling that nobody will listen to me until someone dies. Is it me who dies? Is it my child who dies?”

Romero from the Lakewood Police Department replied: “Lakewood PD is aware of the problems and works in the area to enable frequent additional patrols and strict implementation.”

The Denver Gazette contacted the owner, but refused to comment on the incident.

On February 25, the Lakewood police reported an arrest of suspects near West 10th Avenue and the Ammons Street – exactly the corner of the property.

It is not known whether the arrests were associated with the property.

“Patience pays off for our agents if they follow a suspected drug dealer,” said the department in a social media post and explained that a suspect after a arrest tried to get out of the area with an electric scooter. “As an agent, they found alleged fentanyl and a handgun, whereby the serial number was scraped off.”