DEA sting against Mexican drug cartel leads to 35 arrests in Austin

keye tv ^ | July 21, 2011 | keye

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The DEA announced Thursday the results of Project Delirium. Agents said it was a 20-month long investigation that spanned the country with the La Familia Michoacana cartel as its target.

DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said the operation resulted in 1,985 arrests, $62 million in cash, and around 2,773 pounds of meth, 2,722 kilos of cocaine, 1,005 pounds of heroin, 14,818 pounds of marijuana and $3.8 million in other assets.

Of those arrested, 35 were in Austin after law enforcement executed search warrants at 11 homes in the area on Wednesday.

[bgill]

Good to know the border is as safe as ever and that the violence wouldn't come to our side. Just as we predicted, Perry's Trans Texas Corridor would be a drug trafficers' dream.

[Steely Tom]

Well I hope every one of them gets to speak with a team of their compatriots from the Mexican consulate.

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[Mamzelle]

There goes Lloyd Doggett’s constituency!

[TigersEye]

LOL So they can say “adios?”

[SuzyQue]

I believe it’s spelled Dodge-it.

[a fool in paradise]

Willie Nelson just can’t stay out of troubles these days...

[choctaw man]

Like cockroaches, these cartel members are replaced before their bodies are cool...we need much more than this...

[Texan]

Just as we predicted, Perry's Trans Texas Corridor would be a drug trafficers' dream.

What are you talking about? There's no TTC. Unbelievable, trying to make anything and everything somehow Perry's fault. Just one wild accusations after another with no attempt at honest dialog. You should be ashamed.

[oyez]

More catch and release.

[gaijin]

Headline makes this all sound hugely positive, but a more honest headline would underscore how deeply and brazen is the penetration of Mexican narcos into the USA itself.

Great —they arrested them.

After they spent years ARMING them.

Niiiiiiice.....

[dynachrome]

“1,005 pounds of heroin”

Panic in Needle Park!

[gaijin]

1. Prominent arrests like this act to safe-guard DEA budgeting

2. DEA was complicit in arming the cartels, per FF/Castaway

The arrests are good, sure, but how are we NOT seeing a case of the feds creating an emergency that they then extravagantly appear to “solve”...?

Sorry, but there ARE things as appearances....

[bgill]

Sure, the corridor just recently got shot down but not after he got his toll road that's just a miniature version. Just how many were angry over eminent domain?

[Moonman62]

$62 million in cash, around 2,773 pounds of meth, 2,722 kilos of cocaine, 1,005 pounds of heroin, 14,818 pounds of marijuana and $3.8 million in other assets.

Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

[bgill]

This is just a drop in the bucket. When middle school students know all about these cartels and nothing is done about them for years, then who’s minding the hen house?

[Crapgame]

naw...not on our side of the border...the article forgot that this was Ciudad Austin.../s

[sam_paine]

Sure, the corridor just recently got shot down but not after he got his toll road that's just a miniature version.

Oh sure. The narco mules prefer the toll roads with their SpeedPass tracking boxes and all the plate cameras and such!

Oh, and the "mini-TTC?" If you knew anything about Austin, the only toll roads are a half-loop OUTSIDE THE CITY that famously DOES NOT GO ANYWHERE...or 183A which goes from north of austin to further north of austin and then dead ends.

You're dumber than a Austin Chronicle editor.

[bgill]

Thanks. Glad to have you visit the post. Don’t be a stranger. Come again real soon.

[mia]

Good phrase. I must remember that one.

[Tolsti2]

Execute them all. Quickly. Why waste so much money on housing these idiots?