Posted on 08/15/2006 12:49:57 PM PDT by markomalley
ederal agents arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers from coast-to-coast Tuesday who U.S. officials said smuggled heroin from Mexico and offered phone-up home delivery like a takeout pizza shop.
Beginning before dawn, Drug Enforcement Administration agents conducted arrest raids and searches, seeking up to 150 people, about half of them illegal aliens, according to senior drug enforcement officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity before the official announcement.
By early afternoon, the investigation had produced 131 arrests in 15 cities, from Charleston, S.C., to Los Angeles, based on 10 federal indictments and state charges, the officials said.
Known as Operation Black Gold Rush, the investigation was being described at an afternoon news conference here by Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher and deputy DEA administrator Michele Leonhart.
Officials said the ring grew its own poppies and refined them in Mexico and smuggled an unusually pure variety of black tar heroin across the U.S.-Mexican border, mostly in Arizona, with couriers on foot or in vehicles.
Among other marketing strategies, the gang preyed on recovering heroin addicts. It sent street dealers out from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and operated outside methadone clinics where addicts receive treatment.
Agents conducted surveillance that showed the gang also distributed telephone numbers clients could call. At first a courier would be sent to deliver the heroin to the customer in a car in parking lot, but later after several sales, clients could call and order delivery of heroin to the front door of their home.
Just 'smacking' the US addicts that Americans won't 'smack'!!
An old friend of mine is DEA Liason to the White House. I'll have to give him a shout out.
If there are an inordinate amount of Mexicans this will be shot down by some Lib-scum judge as discriminatory. The agents might as well have stayed home.
From Mexico? How could that happen? /sarcasm
mmmmmmmmm pizza.
Any bets are how quickly they will release the illegal aliens back into the US?? Isn't that government policy?? What, drug dealing wasn't one of those 31 specific crimes they were to be forgiven of?
Delivery guaranteed in 30 minutes or the next hit free.
This undated photo provided by the DEA shows a bag containing heroin in an automobile oil pan seized in Texarkana, Texas during Operation Black Gold Rush which was announced in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. Federal agents arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers from coast-to-coast Tuesday who U.S. officials said smuggled heroin from Mexico and offered phone-up home delivery like a takeout pizza shop. (AP Photo/DEA)
This undated photo provided by the DEA shows bags containing heroin seized in Texarkana, Texas during Operation Black Gold Rush which was announced in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. Federal agents arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers from coast-to-coast Tuesday who U.S. officials said smuggled heroin from Mexico and offered phone-up home delivery like a takeout pizza shop. (AP Photo/DEA)
One supposes that they paid off the wrong elites.
If we cannot repatriate the illegals we actually catch drug dealing then we might as well shut down our government and declare ourselves open for colonization.
the DEA agents celebrated by calling in sick the next day and ordering pizza...
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