DEA says over 100 undocumented immigrants arrested at Colorado Springs party

At slightest 114 radical who are allegedly successful the United States unlawfully were arrested astatine a enactment successful Colorado Springs aboriginal Sunday morning, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The DEA went connected to accidental that the operation, with implicit 300 officers and agents from the FBI, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, the IRS, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, U.S. Postal Police, and section instrumentality enforcement, besides yielded the seizure of firearms and drugs adjacent Academy Boulevard and Airport Road astir 3:45 a.m.

"Part of busting up the underground nightclub successful Colorado Springs included the apprehension of 114 amerciable aliens," the DEA said connected societal media. "Drugs and weapons person besides been seized astatine this underground nightclub successful Colorado Springs."

Drug Enforcement Administration agents, on with astir 300 different section and national agents and officers, broke up a enactment and arrested implicit 100 radical who national officials accidental are undocumented immigrants successful Colorado Springs aboriginal connected the greeting of Sunday, April 27, 2025. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi

Law enforcement officials said implicit 200 radical were astatine the enactment successful total, and those who the DEA said were successful the state unlawfully were turned implicit to ICE for processing and "likely eventual deportation."

Video posted by the DEA connected societal media shows agents successful tactical cogwheel smashing the model of a gathering arsenic dozens of radical locomotion retired the beforehand door. Some of those initially effort to tally from the area, but agents and officers with guns drawn archer the assemblage to get connected the ground. That video shows galore of them complying and putting their hands up.

DEA officials went connected to accidental that progressive work U.S. subject unit were astatine the party, immoderate moving backstage information and others arsenic patrons.

"It's evidently concerning to person progressive work subject involved. We're moving with our partners astatine Army CID connected that case," said DEA's Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent successful Charge Jonathan Pullen. "There's a batch of subject bases here, truthful it's not needfully surprising, but we're going to instrumentality that precise seriously."

In a tweet, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the nine is frequented by pack members, that cocaine and methamphetamines were seized, and that 2 radical were arrested connected existing warrants.

No 1 who was detained oregon arrested astatine the lawsuit has been publically identified.

Colorado authorities instrumentality limits the scope of collaboration between section governments -- including instrumentality enforcement agencies -- and national migration authorities, unless those national agencies person a warrant signed by a national justice oregon magistrate.

Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez says the efforts of his section were "solely to code transgression violations affecting the information of our community."

"I privation to beryllium wide that it is the work of the Colorado Springs Police Department to analyse transgression enactment and marque arrests erstwhile appropriate. This cognition was the effect of a months-long probe into superior transgression enactment successful our community," helium said successful a connection connected Sunday. "While the probe is ongoing, arrests for these transgression violations are expected. CSPD is alert that our national partners besides detained aggregate radical for suspected migration violations during the operation. CSPD is not authorized to behaviour migration enforcement nether Colorado law."

Yemi Mobolade, the first migrant to service arsenic politician of Colorado Springs, praised instrumentality enforcement's efforts portion condemning alleged criminals.

"Let maine beryllium clear: transgression enactment of immoderate kind, from anyone, volition not beryllium tolerated successful Colorado Springs," helium said successful a statement. "This probe and the execution of these warrants are the effect of wide grounds of superior transgression conduct. Our residents merit to unrecorded successful a metropolis wherever the regularisation of instrumentality is upheld and wherever amerciable behaviour is met with steadfast and decisive action. We volition proceed moving unneurotic to guarantee the information and well-being of our full community."