Colorado raids arrest 12 people

DENVER — Federal and state law enforcement arrested 12 people in a series of early morning raids in Colorado related to an ongoing investigation into organized crime, authorities said Thursday.

David Booth, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said at a news conference that officers executed 19 search warrants in the Denver and Colorado Springs areas and in northern Colorado’s Weld County.

Booth said some of those arrested have ties to motorcycle gangs. He refused to elaborate, but he acknowledged that agents raided a Hells Angels motorcycle clubhouse in northwest Denver early Thursday.

Both he and Denver District Attorney Beth McCann declined to release further details.