Residents question constitutional boundaries after federal raid on Denver apartments
Feb 5, 2025·Location: Denver, CO

ICE, DEA, and FBI conducted a raid on Cedar Run Apartments on February 5, 2025, using battering rams and flashbangs to breach units while searching for drug traffickers and targeting migrant families from Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, and Central America. The operation relied on approximately two dozen administrative warrants and two judicial warrants, but residents reported not being shown or given copies of warrants, raising Fourth Amendment questions about forced entry procedures. Legal experts disputed whether administrative warrants authorize forced entry, while some officials defended the federal agencies' actions as lawful.
Sources
- Opinion: I witnessed ICE’s militarized raid in Denver. It was cruelty unchecked.
Denver Post·Feb 16, 2025·archived copy
- Denver apartment complex targeted by federal authorities Wednesday had been on city's radar as crime hotspot
denver7.com·Feb 5, 2025·archived copy
- Ill-timed letter falsely tells Denver tenants to expect another federal raid on Thursday
denver7.com·Feb 7, 2025·archived copy
- gazette.com
- KDVR
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