Margarito “Max” Gomez was known to let people down on their luck stay at his victorian home at 2601 Champa St. that he had subdivided into several apartments.
Courtesy of Denver Police DepartmentMargarito "Max" Gomez, 77
“He was always trying to help people,’’ Max’s son Floranzo Gomez, 42, told a Rocky Mountain News reporter in 1997. “He even bonded some of them out of jail when money was short.’’
Max, then 77, had his share of bad run ins with tenants as well.
In April of 1996, police arrested one man at the house for investigation of felony menacing after he struck Gomez in the face with his fist and pulled a knife.