TDD targeted in large -scale federal operations in the Denver metro: Ice

Denver – Scripps News Denver follows a federal operation to apply the large -scale federal law in progress in the Denver metro on Wednesday. The alleged members of the Gang of Venezuelan prison Tren in Aragua were targeted in the operation, according to immigration and customs application.

Several federal agencies helped the Ministry of Internal Security in the operation, which took place in several places in Denver and Aurora, said sources of application of the law at Denver7 survey.

Denver7’s cameras were there while operations take place in the Cedar Run apartments near Quebec and Leetsdale in Denver. No information was immediately available on arrests, but Denver7 cameras saw people removed from the complex in handcuffs while they lived just after 7 am

Internal security agents, the Ministry of Justice, Immigration and the Application of Customs, the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Office, and others were on the scene. The detainees were apparently escorted on a bus parked outside the complex, according to the Denver7 investigator and former news journalist Natalie Chuck, who was the first on the scene on Wednesday.

She saw DEA agents entering the building, shouting “we have a mandate” at full speed.

The DHS operation takes place at the Denver apartments complex; Other federal agencies present

At one point, a school bus driver tried to go to the parking lot to recover the students, but could not do so. Natalie Chuck de Denver7 reported that there had been communications on the exit of the students of the apartment and the school, but the details around that – and which was exactly involved in these conversations – were not clear And the authorities did not allow many people in or out of or out of the building.

A group of demonstrators formed on the other side of the street and uses megaphones to communicate with residents. They say: “Do not open your doors” and “do not answer their questions”.

• We will update the Denver7 Investigates team as the operations take place. Look in the video player below or at the top of this story:

Denver7 Investigates had their eyes on the apartments of Cedar Run for months after the tenants worried about the conditions. He was considered a criminal hotpot nine months ago by the mayor of Denver, who promised resources to solve the problem.

Denver7 also learned that an ice operation has now taken place at the point of infamous Lowry apartments in Aurora, one in a set of abandoned properties that have been in light in the middle of a controversy of several months on the presence From the Venezuelan gang Tren from Aragua to one month at the time of the city. On Wednesday, no other details were available on this operation at 7:30 am.

Ice application and dismissal operations said that “more than 100”, alleged ADD members were the objective of Wednesday’s operation.

The Drug Encompement Administration shared a video on the social media site X of agents serving a search warrant for Denver7 learned was a location in Aurora.

This position said that the agency supported the operations of the DHS “throughout the metropolitan region”.

Denver7 spoke with a few residents on the verge of Lowry Wednesday morning on FaceTime. Jennifer Moreno, who lives there with her family, said that they had all won the asylum in mid-January and had the documents to prove it. Immigration officials were at his door on Wednesday morning.

“It’s frightening-they hit our door loudly,” she said. “They shouted for us to open the door.”

Her husband added that he had to take their 12 -year -old daughter to school, but the officials told them to stay inside the apartment.

• Listen directly to the edge of the Lowry residents with whom we spoke Wednesday morning when they say that immigration officials were at their door.

Denver7 Facetime with his family in Edge of Lowry in the middle of the ice operation

The chief investigator of Denver7, Tony Kovèdeski, was at E. Colfax avenue and Chambers Road – another scene – Wednesday morning, when dozens of agents began to work around an apartments complex.

The FBI, DHS and DEA agents were all present, starting shortly after 7 am after having held a few people and made small bags of unknown items, they left the scene a little before 8:30 am

• Listen to the Denver7 chief investigator on what happened in the Colfax and Chambers complex in the video below.

The operation with federal agents clears up the apartment near Colfax and the rooms in Aurora

Wednesday morning’s operation is the last of several federal laws for applying the law in the Denver metro. More recently, a man with possible ADD links was arrested on Friday after allegedly committed crimes related to drugs and firearms in Denver

Before that, six operations over a period of 100 hours allowed arrests of at least three people with links with high -level Mexican drug cartels and several members and associates of Tren from Aragua – and Denver7 Investigates covered it At each stage of the process.

In the early morning of January 26, the federal agents made a descent into a vacant building in the county of Adams, arresting 49 people in Which was presented as a festival of Tren of Aragua only. At least 41 of these people were illegally in the United States.

The next day, two people with cartel connections were arrested and 130,000 fentanyl pills were seized during a bust in the south-east of Denver. Two days after that, on January 29, the DEA led four separate operations in Aurora, Brighton, Lochbuie and Fort Lupton. An alleged member of ADD was arrested on the edge of the Lowry complex and at least one person linked to the infamous Sinaloa cartel – the drug trafficking organization, once led by Juan “El Chapo” Guzman – was caught in A house in front of the Polhbuie Gare police.

“Listen, our foot is firmly on the gas. We have more work to do, and we haven’t finished yet, ”a special agent in charge of Jonathan Pullen told Denver7 investigating in an interview with Sitdown last week. “I think we make the city of Denver a safer place by taking the most serious drugs and violent offenders on the street.”

• “ Plus to come ”: Watch Denver7 Investigater ‘Interview Sitdown with Jonathan Pullen in the video player below:

The special agent responsible indicates that the local DEA division has “firmly on gas”

The Special Agent of the DEA in charge of the arrest of Lochbuie last week, David Olesky, said that the increase in the application is due to a “renewed sense” to the agency under the Trump administration.

“We absolutely get all the resources we need not only at the federal level, but also at the local level,” he said. “And with regard to immigration, it is only one of the tools in the toolbox that we will use to withdraw these violent criminals and these drug traffickers.”