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It is estimated that 114 undocumented immigrants were detained in an “underground nightclub” in Colorado after a raid in the administration of the application of drugs, officials said.
Jonathan Pullen, the special agent of the DEA in charge in Denver, said that more than 100 people had been detained after a one -month investigation involving Colorado Springs Club led to the raid on Saturday evening, which met early Sunday.
Some of the customers were arrested on the basis of active state mandates, he said at a press conference. The American prosecutor Pam Bondi put the number of people arrested according to the mandates for two.
There were also firearms, drugs and more than a dozen members of the active service, pretending to be customers or working as armed security.
“As you can suspect, when the cops showed up at the door, most of the drugs hit the ground and we found cocaine,” he said. “We didn’t have time to test everything, but there were dozens of small packages.”
The staff of the army criminal investigation division was at the Raid and helped investigate, said Pullen. The Division and public affairs of the neighboring Fort Carson army did not immediately respond to requests for comments on Sunday evening.
The DEA published a video of moments before the raid on social networks. It shows agents of the police in tactical equipment surrounding the location and presents the audio of warnings in English and Spanish to those inside to go out peacefully.
Pullen said that the club, in what seems to be a shopping center, was a place for drug business and sex workers. The events had been under surveillance by the police for months, he said.
“What was happening inside was significant drug trafficking, prostitution, crimes of violence,” said Pullen. “We have seized a number of firearms.”
He said that the investigation which led to the RAID was underway, saying that the authorities “had a few other opposite operations” throughout the city.
President Donald Trump has published a video of part of the raid on his social account of truth and alleged that some of the people gathered are murderers and other violent criminals. The DEA did not identify anyone accused of murder among the detained persons.
Trump called him “a big raid last night on some of the worst people illegally from our country”.
Leap said on x that the members of Venezuela Aragua train The gang, as well as the MS-13 gang based on Los Angeles, were detained. The two gangs have been appointed several times as violent threats to the United States while the Trump administration is forged with its repression against illegal immigration.
Pullen said that agents surveillance on the site spotted people they believed to be members of Tren of Agua and MS-13, as well as members of the Moto Hells Angels gang.
Bondi congratulated Trump to “get results” in his mission to “make America again safe”.
The large -scale roundups of people suspected of being illegally in the country have long concerned the defenders of immigrants, as well as lawyers for civil freedoms.
The Colorado Rapid Response Network, which provides information on raids to immigrant communities, has urged relatives of detained persons to remind them that they can remain silent, do not have to sign documents and may request a legal representation.
“We do not know all the facts”, the group sAID on FaCadat.
Revelers Jose Dominguez said in an interview, part of which broadcast on the NBC subsidiary Kusa de DenverWhether the police have put it, as well as others, until their presence in the United States can be determined as legal or not.
“So they let me go,” he said, “as if nothing happened.”
