Federal officials reported that, following a months-long investigation, federal narcotics and immigration investigators stormed a makeshift nightclub in Adams County on Sunday morning, resulting in the detention of 41 illegal immigrants, including gang members.

The Drug Enforcement Administration made dozens of arrests on Sunday as part of work with immigration enforcement, as The Daily Mail reported.

Forty-one out of the 49 people who were in the building during the raid were undocumented immigrants, and some of them were connected to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang.

According to federal officials, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took 41 people into jail for living in Colorado without legal permission.

From officials

On social media, federal officials stated that the raid, which took place in the 6600 block of Federal Boulevard, was intended to target narcotics trafficking and the TdA gang.

According to Steffan Tubbs, a spokesperson for the DEA, the operation began on Saturday night at approximately 9 p.m.

Later, agents executed federal search warrants for the building at around 5 a.m. on Sunday.

It was not known how many of the people arrested on Sunday were affiliated to the TdA gang, but officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration stated that the number was in the dozens.

Finding the migrants

According to a news release from the DEA, a huge group had been gathering to party inside the empty warehouse for several months.

Invitations to the Saturday night party were issued on social media by individuals believed to be members of the TdA gang.

A video that was posted by DEA officials on X shows federal agents lining people up and restraining them outside of a warehouse.

An early AM raid of a makeshift nightclub in Adams County. #DEA, @ERODenver, @HSIDenver, @ATFHQ along w local partners seize drugs, cash, weapons.
This was invite-only - dozens connected to the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang were there.
This bus took away nearly 50 illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/hQDtonGW9Z

— DEARockyMountain (@DEAROCKYMTNDiv) January 26, 2025

More video footage

In a second video, a plain white bus without any labels is seen transporting the group to a prison center.

According to officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the warehouse was also raided and guns, cash, and drugs were taken, including cocaine, crack cocaine, and pink cocaine, which is also known as "tusi."