Federal agents said on Monday they helped take down one of the nation’s biggest gang threats in the Denver metro area by indicting 30 people — mostly for gun and drug crimes.
The investigation, which began last year during the administration of President Joe Biden, involved confidential informants and undercover agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF.
According to federal court documents, several people, most of whom lived in south metro Denver, made arrangements to purchase drugs and guns on multiple occasions. Six of the defendants are also charged with conspiracy to commit murder for hire.
Many of the details of the crimes announced Monday have previously been revealed in court documents, so Monday’s press conference was a repackaging of months of arrest warrants, indictments and superseding indictments as the number of defendants grew.
That made the event less about what the agents and federal prosecutors plan to prove in court and more about what they claim bound the group of defendants together.
