By Heather Willard | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News
Federal law enforcement agencies, joined by local partners, raided what the Drug Enforcement Agency called a “makeshift nightclub” in Adams County on Sunday, resulting in 49 people arrested.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement took 41 of those arrested into custody, alleging they were in the U.S. illegally. The raid was the result of a months-long investigation by the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Field Division. The RMFD has been investigating drug trafficking by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua since “last summer,” according to DEA RMFD Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen.
The DEA RMFD said the party at the nightclub was “invite-only,” which Pullen said is only set up on certain weekends and is “invitation-only to members of TdA and their associates.” The law enforcement at the raid Sunday morning — which included the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Homeland Security Investigations; and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations — seized guns, drugs and U.S. currency.