A criminal complaint says that an Army soldier who was arrested last week during a raid on an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is accused of having and selling cocaine as well as selling guns with large magazines to people who are in the country illegally.
Staff Sgt. Juan Gabriel Orona-Rodriguez, 28, has been charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado with one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, offering cocaine for sale, and having cocaine with the plan to sell. The charges were made public on Thursday.
The criminal charge, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on Wednesday, says that Orona-Rodriguez sold cocaine to a DEA agent who was working undercover during the week of April 21.
Investigators searched the suspect’s mobile and reportedly found text messages from September 16, 2024, to April 9, 2025, that showed he bought and sold cocaine to other people many times.
The document says that Orona-Rodriguez is thought to be illegally selling guns, including ones with large magazines, to people who are not from the United States. Also, it says that Orona-Rodriguez is sent to Fort Carson in Colorado Springs.
According to the affidavit, Orona-Rodriguez works for Immortal Security LLC, a company that provides armed security to nightclubs and an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs called Warike. Warike was the site of a major DEA raid early Sunday morning that arrested at least 114 illegal immigrants.
The police found drugs, including pink cocaine, as well as signs of prostitutes and several guns during the raid, the DEA advised.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says that members of the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs often go to the same basement nightclub.
Before the raid, the Colorado Springs Police Department got 911 calls about Warike. The calls were about a wide range of claimed crimes, such as assault, drug crimes, weapons violations, and other violent crimes.
More than a dozen Army soldiers were at Warike when the search warrant was carried out early Sunday morning. Orona-Rodriguez was one of them.
Based on information from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI special agent who filed the affidavit said that Orona-Rodriguez got a developmental counselling form from his commanding officer in the spring of 2025 about Immortal Security activities, especially claims of drug distribution and gun possession.
As the agent wrote, the form came from Orona-Rodriguez’s superior officer. At that time, the suspect was told that members of the Armed Forces were not allowed to work for Immortal Security Operation LLC.
In March 2025, Orona-Rodriguez was told in particular, “You are not allowed to work while on duty without permission from the Battalion Commander IAW 4ID…”
The agent said that Orona-Rodriguez has never been convicted of a crime before.
Bondi praised the operation, which was made up of 300 people from different agencies, such as the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
“This morning @DEAHQ apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground nightclub frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists,” Bondi told X in a post. “Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations, the Colorado Springs Police Department, and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office were also a part of the process.
In films of the operation that have been shared online, U.S. Postal Service and IRS agents can be seen arresting illegal immigrants at the nightclub. This shows that the Trump administration is deporting people using the whole government.
In particular, an inspector from the U.S. Postal Service and a worker with the IRS’s Criminal Investigations were seen holding people who are thought to be criminals.
DEA Rocky Mountain says that many of the people who were arrested in Sunday’s raid will likely face federal deportation charges. Bondi also said that at least two people were nabbed on outstanding warrants.