Army Soldier Arrested in Colorado Nightclub Raid for Alleged Cocaine Distribution FBI

Army Soldier Arrested in Colorado Nightclub Raid for Alleged Cocaine Distribution FBI

Court records show that a soldier in the U.S. Army stationed in Colorado was arrested on federal drug charges. The soldier was in charge of security for an underground bar that was the site of a federal raid over the weekend.

The FBI in Denver said that Staff Sgt. Juan Gabriel Orona-Rodriguez, a soldier at Fort Carson, was taken Wednesday evening.

A federal lawsuit says that on April 22, Orona-Rodriguez sold cocaine to a DEA agent who was working undercover near the soldier’s home in Colorado Springs. His text messages were also said to show “months of suspected cocaine trafficking,” as stated in the lawsuit.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado said he was charged with giving cocaine to other people, having cocaine on his person with the aim to sell it, and planning to sell cocaine.

A federal raid on a “afterhours, unlawful nightclub” in Colorado Springs over the weekend included Orona-Rodriguez and 17 other active-duty service members, according to the lawsuit.

The complaint said that he “appears to hold a leadership/ownership role in a business called Immortal Security LLC,” which “provides armed security at ‘nightclubs,'” including the underground club where the DEA raid happened early Sunday morning.

The complaint said that DEA agents “believe Immortal Security employees are involved in drug distribution.”

The complaint says that Immortal Security hires some current duty and former service members.

Based on the complaint, Orona-Rodriguez’s commanding officer told him in March that Immortal Security “is off limits to members of the Armed Forces” and that he is “prohibited from engaging in off-duty employment” without permission from his battalion commander.

The soldier is also “suspected of unlawfully trafficking firearms, including those with high-capacity magazines, to illegal aliens,” the complaint said, in addition to the drug activity.

The FBI said that Orona-Rodriguez was arrested with the help of the Rocky Mountain Field Division of the DEA, the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, and Fort Carson staff.

A Fort Carson official said in a statement on Thursday, “We will continue to work with all the agencies involved.”

The FBI and the Army Criminal probe Division are together with the DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division in their probe.

Along with Operation Take Back America, this case is part of a “nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado said in a press release.

Thursday at 2 p.m. local time, Orona-Rodriguez is set to go to court. There is no information about his lawyer in the online court records.

The lawsuit says that he doesn’t seem to have been convicted of any felonies before.

His current job is with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, according to Fort Carson. He has been in the service for more than eight years. One of his medals is the Army Commendation Medal with Combat Device.

It’s south of Colorado Springs to find Fort Carson.

A spokesperson for Fort Carson stated on Tuesday that 17 service members, including 16 assigned to Fort Carson, were found at the scene of Sunday’s nightclub raid and were allowed to leave on their own.

The DEA said that at the illegal nightclub, they arrested more than 200 people, some of whom were military members.

Authorities say that 114 illegal immigrants were caught, with most of them coming from Central and South America.

Federal police also said that drugs and guns were taken from the nightclub.

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