Dozens arrested in Colorado raid targeting Venezuela gang
#DEA and federal/local partners conducted an early morning operation at a makeshift nightclub in Adams County. Drugs/weapons/cash seized. Approx. 50 illegal aliens were taken into custody by @ERODenver - many are connected with the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang from Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/hXck5bBU2G
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.
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.
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.
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.
How many people arrested Sunday were connected to the TdA gang is unclear, but DEA officials said the number was in the dozens.
New fears are haunting some migrant families in the Denver metro area amid the Trump Administration's directives on immigration in the country.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said in a press release that of the 49 people detained in the raid early Sunday morning, at least 41 were undocumented.
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) arrested on Sunday dozens of undocumented migrants tied to Venezuelan-born gang Tren de Aragua following the raid of what authorities described as a "makeshift nightclub" in Adams County, Colorado. Several of them were taken into custody.
DEA and ICE agents took nearly 50 people into custody, as well as drugs and weapons, after seeing social media posts about an invite-only party at a makeshift nightclub Federal agents detained 50