Busted…
Federal agents swarmed a nightclub in Colorado over the weekend in a massive sting that resulted in the arrest of dozens of illegal migrants with suspected gang affiliations.
More than 100 people were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Jonathan Pullen, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division special agent in charge, said at a news conference.
DEA officials said more than 200 people, including at least 114 people in the U.S. illegally, were inside the underground nightclub before initial arrests were made shortly before 4 a.m. local time. Pullen said “a few” were detained on outstanding warrants.
“Only those here illegally or those with warrants were taken into custody. Most partygoers were eventually released,” DEA Rocky Mountain wrote in a post on social media platform X.
President Trump celebrated the raid in a post on his platform Truth Social while seeking to tie the enforcement effort to some of his more controversial deportation moves that have sparked battles with various courts across the country, including the Supreme Court.
“A big Raid last night on some of the worst people illegally in our Country — Drug Dealers, Murderers, and other Violent Criminals, of all shapes and sizes, and Judges don’t want to send them back to where they came from. If we don’t win this battle at the Supreme Court, our Country, as we know it, is FINISHED! It will be a Crime ridden MESS. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump posted, along with video of agents confronting fleeing patrons.
Pullen said authorities were investigating the club for “a number of months” before conducting Sunday’s raid.
“This morning [DEA] apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground night club frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X, referring to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the international gang MS-13.
The DEA said weapons and illicit drugs were recovered in the raid. Bondi said cocaine, meth and pink cocaine were seized. Two people were arrested on existing warrants, she said.
Among those encountered by law enforcement were “more than a dozen active duty military” who were patrons or security at the nightclub, the DEA said in a social media post.
Some service members of Fort Carson, an Army post in Colorado Springs, were present at the nightclub, a spokeswoman told The New York Times on Sunday night.
“Each person involved in this incident is presumed innocent until proven guilty. We will look at everyone’s situation on a case-by-case basis,” the spokeswoman told the Times. “Illegal activities of any kind do not represent our military values.”
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All, with the exception of those in the country ILLEGALLY, are considered “innocent” until proven guilty. ALL those who are in the country illegally, will be DEPORTED.