More details emerged Monday about a federal raid on a pop-up nightclub early Sunday morning near Denver, that was aimed at disrupting the operations of the Venezuelan Tren De Aragua gang in Colorado.
The Drug Enforcement Administration detained 49 people in Colorado over the weekend at what the special agent in charge called an invitation-only party.
Federal agents interrupted a party at a "makeshift nightclub" north of Denver early Sunday morning and arrested almost 50 people of undetermined immigration status, a large number of whom are reportedly affiliated with the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.
Officials with the U.S. Northern Command said that they started work Monday to prepare Buckley for use by Homeland Security as a temporary detention center.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations detained the nearly 50 people, many of which are “connected with the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang from Venezuela,” according to the DEA.
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Along with the DEA, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security and ATF agents, as well as local law enforcement, took part in the raid.
The DEA said the people detained all had some connection to Tren de Aragua, whether they were gang members themselves, or associated with a member.
After a home raid in Lochbuie, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration took at least three suspects into custody with suspected ties to a Mexican drug cartel.
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) arrested dozens of people in Colorado in a raid that targeted a Venezuelan gang. The Rocky Mountain arm of the DEA posted on the social platform X that nearly 50
The Drug Enforcement Administration on Sunday morning detained 49 people in Adams County, Denver7 spoke with immigration advocates to hear their reactions and concerns to the raid.