More than 100 immigrants, allegedly in the country illegally, would have been detained in Colorado Springs after a night raid that the authorities described as an underground nightclub in a shopping center.
More than a dozen active service soldiers were also at the club during the RAID, and federal officials said that some worked on illegal operation.
“What was happening inside was significant drug trafficking, prostitution, crimes of violence,” the special mountain division of DEA Rocky said on Sunday morning. “We have seized a number of firearms. We had soldiers in active service who led security to the club and involved in some of these crimes. And in fact, we also had more than 100 illegal extraterrestrials inside. ”
The drugs found in the underground club included cocaine and so-called pink cocaine, also known as “letter“Said Pullen.
Those who are said to be in the United States have been placed in police custody by immigration and customs application, said Pullen, while members of the active service were handed over to the Criminal Investigations of the US Army.
CNN contacted the ice and the American army for more details.
The video published online by the DEA Sunday morning showed that federal officers breaking a large window before an indefinable building while people fled to the door of the night, to be arrested by additional armed federal agents. Some of those who stopped wore dresses and outfits adapted to a nightclub.
Hundreds of agents of more than 10 federal agencies participated in the raid and more than 200 people were inside the club when the authorities arrived, said Pullen.
The nightclub was under surveillance by DEA and partner agencies for “several months” and the authorities have documented drug trafficking, prostitution and the presence of members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and Hells Angels, according to Pullen.
“I do not have the information on the question of whether these members were there tonight, but we are still largely working on that, because we have so many people in detention,” said Pullen.
“Colorado Springs wakes up in a safer city this Sunday morning,” he said.
Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff to the White House of President Donald Trump, commented the raid on Sunday morning on X, saying that it was an operation between the DHS and the Ministry of Justice, adding more information to come.
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