ICE storms cartel-run nightclub, arrests 72 migrants including murder suspect

Federal migration agents raided a cartel-operated nightclub successful South Carolina aboriginal Sunday, arresting much than 70 illegal migrants, including a Honduran fugitive wanted for homicide, according to the Department of Homeland Security. 

The Alamo, an underground nightclub successful Summerville, was packed astatine astir 3 a.m. erstwhile Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stormed the building, recovering firearms, bulk cash, 7 imaginable trafficking victims and a missing juvenile. Teens arsenic young arsenic 13 were recovered drinking wrong the club, section instrumentality enforcement said.

The club’s owner, Benjamin Reyna-Flores, is simply a suspected subordinate of the Los Zetas Cartel — present known arsenic Cártel del Noreste (CDN) — which was formally designated a violent enactment by the Trump Administration successful February, Homeland Security said. He present faces some authorities and national charges.

Federal migration agents raided a cartel-operated nightclub successful South Carolina aboriginal Sunday, arresting much than 70 amerciable migrants, including a Honduran fugitive wanted for homicide, according to the Department of Homeland Security. 

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The raid was portion of a months-long probe into the establishment, which officials said was a hotbed for narcotics, weapons and quality trafficking. The probe was code-named "Operation Last Stand," and astir 200 instrumentality enforcement unit crossed 14 agencies were connected the ground.

In total, 80 arrests were made. One of the astir high-profile arrests was that of Sergio Joel Galo-Baca, a Honduran amerciable alien and overseas fugitive with an progressive INTERPOL Red Notice for homicide successful Honduras. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Charlotte led the cognition with section instrumentality enforcement,

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin praised the results of the raid. 

"Day successful and time out, the brave men and women of ICE are moving with section instrumentality enforcement to support American communities safe," McLaughlin said. "Under President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem, fugitives and law-breakers are connected notice: Leave present oregon ICE volition find you and deport you." 

The nightclub is located disconnected Highway 78.

 Seven imaginable trafficking victims and a missing juvenile were discovered. (Homeland Security)

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster echoed McLaughlin comments and said that Tren de Aragua pack members were besides arrested. 

"This is what years of unfastened borders got us, but present things person changed," McMaster posted connected X. "We volition proceed to person much investigations similar this 1 to escaped South Carolina of these criminals."

Charleston County Sheriff Carl Ritchie said instrumentality enforcement has been gathering accusation successful this lawsuit since November, erstwhile repeated sound complaints led deputies to analyse further.

Deputies and agents entered the nightclub with 116 apprehension warrants, some transgression and immigration-related. Ritchie said, per WCSC, that they were capable to service 80 warrants. Deputies said immoderate were citizens and others were non-citizens.

Among those arrested were 2 "high-level" cartel members, a fig Ritchie expects to grow.

Deputy Administrator Eric Watson, meanwhile, described the country arsenic a "cartel afterparty."

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster praised the cognition and said that Tren de Aragua pack members were besides arrested.  (Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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Two witnesses, David Herrera and Destiny Tinoco, said the nightclub filled up with agents and deputies shouting commands, immoderate wrong translating the words to Spanish.

"I saw dancing, I saw radical smiling, having a bully clip and past boom. It each went to chaos," Herrera told WCSC. "A clump of agents from aggregate agencies came in, pointing guns astatine people, barking orders, telling radical to get the "bleep" down, enactment your hands up. Basically, detained the full gathering for, like, an hr and a half, possibly 2 hours. People were coming up to them, saying, ‘I person kids astatine home.’"

Ritchie, meanwhile, said immoderate of those arrested look charges for battle connected a constabulary officer, resisting arrest, possession of controlled substances and possession of a firearm.