U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied a request for public records from Summit Daily News on Tuesday, Sept. 30. 

Summit Daily requested documents related to Tuesday, Sept. 16, operations led by Homeland Security Investigations, the division of ICE that handles criminal investigations, in Frisco and Dillon.

ICE Denver Public Affairs confirmed in an email to Summit Daily that the agency detained two people in its operations that took place Tuesday, Sept. 16. Voces Unidas reported the two people detained worked at Hacienda Real, a Frisco restaurant where agents executed a search warrant.

The ICE spokesperson wrote that the Sept. 16 operations, where agents executed search warrants at the restaurant and a Dillon Valley home, were part of an ongoing investigation into “allegations of unlawful employment practices and other potential federal crimes.”

The agency responded to the records request by writing that the information requested is “withholdable in its entirety” due to the “open status of ongoing law enforcement operations.” Disclosing the information before ICE completes its operation could “interfere with law enforcement proceedings,” the response read.

Hacienda Real wrote in a Sept. 16 post that the business would temporarily close, as agents had taken the restaurant’s computers, but the staff is grateful for the community’s “understanding and support.”