An estimated 114 immigrants without papers were held in an “underground nightclub” in Colorado after a raid on drug Enforcement Administration, officials said.
Jonathan Pullen, the special agent of the DEA who was in charge of Denver, said that more than 100 people were being held after a months of investigation with the Colorado Springs Club led to the Raid Saturday evening, who came across early Sunday.
Some customers were arrested on the basis of active state warrants, he said at a press conference. The American Attorney General Pam Bondi placed the number of arrested people based on Warrants on two.
Also in the club, Pullen said, weapons, drugs and more than a dozen were active service members who occurred as customers or worked as armed safety.
“As you may suspect, when the police appeared at the door, most medicines hit the floor and found cocaine,” he said. “We didn’t have time to test everything, but there were dozens of small packages.”
The army of the Army Criminal Investigation Division was at the raid and helped in investigating, said Pullen. The division and public affairs of the army in nearby Fort Carson did not respond immediately to requests for comments on Sunday evening.
The DEA posted video of the moments before the raid on social media. It shows law enforcement officials in tactical equipment around the location and offers audio of warnings in English and Spanish to those in to leave peacefully.
Pullen claimed that the club, in what seems to be a comic mall, was a location for drug deals and sex workers. Events that had been supervised by law enforcement for months, he said.
“What happened inside was considerable drug trafficking, prostitution, violent crimes,” said Pullen. “We have seized a number of weapons there.”
He indicated that the investigation that led to the raid was underway, and said that the authorities “actually have a few other operations in the city”.
President Donald Trump posted video of a part of the raid on his truth social report and claimed that some of those who have been completed are murderers and other violent criminals. The DEA has not identified anyone who is accused of murder under the held.
Trump characterized it as “a big raid last night on some of the worst people illegally in our country.”
Bondi said on x That members of the Tren the Aragua gang of Venezuela, as well as of the MS-13 gangs established by Los Angeles, were held. Both gangs are repeatedly mentioned as violent threats for the United States, while the Trump government improves with his alignment against illegal immigration.
Pullen said that agents who would supervise the location of the location that they think are the Agua and MS-13 members, as well as members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Gang.
Bondi praised Trump for “achieving results” in his mission to “make America safe again”.
Large -scale roundups of people who are suspected of being illegal in the country have long since relate to advocates for immigrants, as well as lawyers of civil liberties.
The Colorado Rapid Response Network, which provides information about raids to immigrant communities, insisted on family members of those who have been held to remind them that they are silent, do not have to sign documents and ask for legal representation.
“We don’t know all the facts”, the group SAID on FaCebober.
PartyGur Jose Dominguez said in an interview, part of which was broadcast on NBC branch Kusa Van DenverThat law enforcement brought him and others into handcuffs until their presence in the United States could be determined legally as legally.
“Then they let me go,” he said, “as if nothing happened.”
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