Feds Round Up Dozens of Tren de Aragua Members in Colorado Raid

Townhall ^ | 01/27/2025 | Leah Barkoukis

[SeekAndFind]

Federal agents busted dozens of Tren de Aragua gang members in an overnight raid in Denver, Colorado.

The round-up of 49 members of the violent Venezuelan gang took place in a “makeshift nightclub” where federal agents also seized weapons, drugs, and cash.

 “#DEA agents, @HSIDenver @ERODenver @ATF_Denver & local partners conduct an early AM operation targeting drug trafficking & members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). Drugs, weapons, and cash were seized in Adams County. Nearly 50 illegal aliens were taken into custody,” DEA’s Rocky Mountain Division posted on X along with photos of the raid. 

Denver7 Investigates' cameras exclusively captured video around 5:45 a.m. along the 6600 block of Federal Boulevard in Adams County, showing agents rounding up people and escorting them onto a bus.

At least 41 of the 49 people detained are undocumented residents and are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a DEA press release.

According to Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen, the DEA was executing a federal search warrant at a vacant property where a large group had been gathering to party for several months.

Pullen said TdA gang members and associates posted about the gathering on social media, and numerous individuals in the makeshift nightclub were found to be associated with the Venezuelan gang.

"TdA affiliated gang members and associates sent out invitations over social media to come to a party at this location tonight," he said. [...]

Pullen said the Adams County operation was part of a months-long investigation and a broader DEA campaign targeting the Venezuelan gang.

It involved more than 100 local and federal law enforcement personnel.

"What we're here today for was an ongoing DEA investigation. As you know, we've been targeting the TdA. DEA has been working on TdA for a number of months here in Denver, and so this was a part of that long-term operation," Pullen said. (Denver 7)

#DEA agents, @HSIDenver @ERODenver @ATF_Denver & local partners conduct an early AM operation targeting drug trafficking & members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). Drugs, weapons, and cash were seized in Adams County. Nearly 50 illegal aliens were taken into custody.

pic.twitter.com/cyUJTk6rCH— DEARockyMountain (@DEAROCKYMTNDiv) January 26, 2025

In his first week in office, President Trump signed an executive order instructing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to work toward designating Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations.

[Texas Eagle]

Catholic Bishops and The View co-hosts hardest hit. They will now have to vacuum their own carpets.

[ComputerGuy]

My tax dollars at work!

[Darksheare]

Another catch rich environment: the trucking industry.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-391/subpart-B/section-391.11

391.11 (b) 2 says:
“Can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records;”

And yet there are people behind the wheel using Google translate to “communicate”.
They can’t understand the road signs, can’t understand what you are saying.
But someone deemed them able to drive 90,000 pound death machines on our roads despite the tacit inability to understand the road signs.

And guess the majority of the languages spoken by these “drivers”?
Spanish and various dialects from China.

[metmom]

So much winning.

And I’m not tired of it yet.

[OHPatriot]

Funny how this was a months long investigation and just coincidently the raid took place AFTER Trump was sworn in.

Elections DO have consequences.

[ComputerGuy]

It’s amazing how fast they were able to pull this thing off.

[Paal Gulli]

Let it be known that all illegals who self-deport can carry all their possession with them (Beverly Hillbillies-style, if they like).

And those who don't self-deport will be stripped to the skin and x-rayed for smuggled items, have their bank accounts seized, then be sent home with nothing but the prison grays on the backs and a pair of flip-flops.

[FrankRizzo890]

Boom! Awesome!

[Billthedrill]

At least 41 of the 49 people detained are undocumented residents and are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

"Undocumented residents"? How about "Dreamers" or "poor little lambs who have lost their way"? They were criminals in Venezuela, criminals when they crossed the border, and are engaged in crime here. They. Are. Criminals.

[frank ballenger]

The torture details should be repeated in the media.

They only do their evil coverup with “undocumented” migrants stories.

Horrific details are emerging about the torture a man and woman were subjected to at a Colorado apartment complex ‘infested’ by vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).

“DailyMail.com can reveal the victims’ fingernails were yanked from their hands after migrant gangsters kidnapped the couple early Tuesday morning, forcing them into an apartment unit where they were tied up, beaten, pistol-whipped and brutalized.

The attackers are Venezuelan migrants, local cops confirmed, but stopped short of connecting them to the the South American gang that has taken control of at least three apartment complex in Denver suburb.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/us-border-crisis/article-14207195/colorado-aurora-migrant-gang-venezuelan.html