CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County Sheriff says 80 people were arrested over the weekend during a multi-agency targeted operation on a nightclub.

Deputies, along with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and other federal, state and local partners, performed a sting operation on the Alamo nightclub, which officials say was an unlicensed bar off Highway 78 around 3 a.m. Sunday.

Charleston County Sheriff Carl Ritchie says law enforcement have been gathering information in this case since November after repeated noise complaints led deputies to investigate further.

In the sting, titled “Operation Last Stand,” deputies and agents went into the nightclub with 116 arrest warrants, both criminal and immigration related. Out of t

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