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Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Yahoo
DEA arrests 2 people in Denver Monday morning
DENVER (KDVR) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration took two people into custody in Denver on Monday. Steffan Tubbs, the DEA's public information officer, told FOX31's Kasia Kerridge that two people were taken into custody near Mississippi Avenue and Quebec Street in the Washinton Virginia Vale neighborhood in southeast Denver. Tubbs said the arrests were related to drug trafficking and money laundering. The DEA does not believe the suspects are related to the Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua but said agents will be in the area for a little while while they continue to investigate. 2 killed in Monday morning Denver shooting, 2 in custody These arrests come one day after the DEA assisted in a high-profile raid. On Sunday morning, 49 people were detained after law enforcement raided a 'makeshift nightclub' in Adams County. The DEA, Homeland Security, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and over 100 local partners seized drugs, weapons and cash. The arrests on Monday are not believed to be connected to Sunday's raid. ICE said many of those detained in Adams County were 'connected with the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang from Venezuela.' The raid was at an 'invite-only' party connected to TdA at the nightclub. Both investigations are ongoing. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
26-01-2025
- CBS News
DEA raids party, arrests nearly 50 undocumented immigrants and TdA gang members
Federal agents interrupted a party at a "makeshift nightclub" in north Denver early Sunday morning and arrested almost 50 people of undetermined immigration status, a large number of whom are reportedly affiliated with the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. A spokesperson with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Division told CBS Colorado that the immigration status of all the arrestees was "questionable" and being examined. DEA agents, along with others from the Denver offices of Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, conducted an early morning raid. They entered a building in the 6600 block of North Federal Boulevard when had been coverted into a "makeshift nightclub," as described by the DEA in a social media post. Drugs, weapons and cash were seized. The operation targeted drug trafficking and members of the TdA gang, the DEA stated. After those 50 undocumented immigrants were taken into custody by the DEA, they were handed over to ICE, according to Steffan Tubbs of the DEA-Rocky Mountain Division. An ICE spokesperson contacted Sunday morning did not want to comment on the specifics of its role in the bust or speculate on how many of the arrestees would be held locally on criminal charges or immediately deported. TdA gang activity partly to blame for unsafe conditions at several apartment buildings in Aurora. City officials there announced last week their intent to seek closure of the five remaining buildings in the Edge of Lowry complex at Dallas Street and East 12th Avenue. Residents have already been asked to vacate a sixth building in which a migrant couple was taken captive and beaten by alleged gang members late last year. Nineteen people were arrested last month by Aurora Police Department officers in December as a result of their investigation into that incident. Sixteen of the 19 arrestees were at that time believed to be TdA members. Aurora officials took over management of the buildings from CBZ Management. A judge appointed a new manager to oversee the sixth building as tenants seek new housing. They've been given a Feb. 18 deadline to be out of the Edge of Lowry apartments. The City of Denver announced Friday its own closure of a CBZ managed apartment building, also for reported unsafe living conditions. An undisclosed number of officers from local police agencies supported the federal raid.
