A hotel in downtown El Paso that is allegedly occupied by a Venezuelan gang was ordered temporarily shut down by a state judge on Monday.

The judge’s order came after the Gateway Hotel and its owner received a temporary injunction and restraining order from the El Paso County attorney on Monday over suspicions that the Venezuelan “Tren De Aragua” gang was engaging in criminal activity inside the hotel.

Tren de Aragua made national headlines a few weeks ago after gang members allegedly commandeered an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. Police there have denied the gang controls the complex.

Court documents say that police reports show the Gateway Hotel in El Paso has regular criminal activity, and members of Tren De Aragua have been allowed to operate inside, according to sworn testimony from El Paso police officers.

One officer said police witnessed several Venezuelan men with tattoos associated with the gang walking around the hotel. Hotel management was not attempting to control the conduct of guests, the officer said.

At least 693 calls to police have been made about the hotel over the last two years, including for drugs, thefts, burglaries, and fights.

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The court documents also accuse the hotel of operating for the past six years without a valid certificate of occupancy and in violation of city requirements, as well as failing at least three inspections by the El Paso Fire Department since July.

Security videos and pictures from the court documents also show people “partying” on the third floor, drinking, smoking, dancing provocatively, and one woman even apparently vomiting in a hallway with children around.

One video also shows a gun being shot, a person threatening someone with another gun, men holding knives, and a man with a hatchet assaulting people in front of a security guard.

One police officer said he suspected prostitution in the hotel. Police also described trash and fire hazards as well and said the general reputation of the hotel was for “allowing illegal activity (consuming drugs, gang activity, illegal dumping).”

A hearing is scheduled for December 9 to determine if hotel owner Howard Yun allowed criminal activity on the property.

The county attorney’s office sued the hotel last month and is seeking a permanent injunction to stop the hotel from operating until long-term solutions are in place.

The Gateway Hotel has been in downtown El Paso since the 1920s, although it has changed ownership.

The occupants of the hotel have until 10 a.m. on Thursday to vacate the building. It is unclear whether law enforcement will be required to evict those living in the hotel.

Singer Elton John said his two kids are concerned about his eventual death.

The 77-year-old recording artist discussed the topic in his new documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late,” which premiered on Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival. John has two sons – Zachary, 13, and Elijah, 11 – via surrogate along with husband David Furnish, 61.

“They think about my mortality. They worry about my mortality,” John said, per People. “Not so much David, but me.”

The Grammy Award winner went on to explain that it’s because they “love their daddy, so they want me to be around forever, [and] I would love to be around forever.”

“I want to see them have children and get married. I don’t think I’m going to be around for that. Who knows?” John continued. “You never know. So that’s why I want to use the best time — the best of my time — while I’m around,” he adds. “Time together is so wonderful and so precious.”

John also talked about his health issues recently. Earlier in September, he reported to have partial visual impairment in one of his eyes. 

“Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye,” he wrote on social media at the time. “I am healing, but it’s an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the impacted eye.”

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Last summer, the recording artist was hospitalized after falling at his villa in Nice, France. He was spending time there after concluding his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour.

Years ago, the “Rocket Man” singer was misdiagnosed with a colon infection when he was actually suffering from appendicitis. He also had complications after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer in 2017, per The Guardian.

“It turned out that I had a rare complication from the operation,” John said, mentioning how he spent his nights in the hospital awake, “wondering if I was going to die.”

“In the hospital, alone at the dead of night, I’d prayed: please don’t let me die, please let me see my kids again, please give me a little longer,” he wrote in his memoir, “Me,” per the outlet.

“In a strange way, it felt like the time I spent recuperating was the answer to my prayers: if you want more time, you need to learn to live like this, you have to slow down.”