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US to target high-level criminals in Puerto Rico
Associated Press ^ | Sep 26, 2013 12:14 PM EDT | Danica Coto

Posted on 09/26/2013 10:15:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Federal agents will start targeting high-level drug traffickers in Puerto Rico with intelligence gathered during a three-month blitz on criminal activity in the U.S. territory, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.

The campaign is part of a federal operation that began in July 2012 with help from local authorities that focuses on the smuggling of drugs, weapons, money and migrants.

The agency says agents have seized a total of 53,000 pounds (24,000 kilograms) of drugs, confiscated hundreds of firearms and arrested more than 320 suspected criminals who will be prosecuted at federal and local levels. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dea; drugtrafficking; fastandfurious; illegals; mafia; puertorico; weapons

1 posted on 09/26/2013 10:15:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Hundreds of firearms....maybe they got some of the
Fast and Furious guns back.


2 posted on 09/26/2013 10:17:31 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

All so they can be re-walked, I wonder . . . ?


3 posted on 09/26/2013 10:18:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How about first targeting high-level criminals in DC....such as the IRS, the Just-Us Department, the State Department...and our current bottom-dwelling set of congresscritters?

Oh, forgot, what difference does it make?


4 posted on 09/26/2013 10:33:43 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai; cll

Ping


5 posted on 09/26/2013 11:04:36 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Sergio

Thanks for the ping Sergio. I’m on leave right now with limited access to computers and I keep my PR ping list on my office PC desktop. I neglected to share it with anyone on the list before I left.


6 posted on 09/26/2013 11:49:01 AM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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