Posted on 09/04/2025 9:42:04 AM PDT by DFG
An international law enforcement operation called Operation Box Cutter has shut down a major criminal enterprise that was supplying precursor drugs that were used in the manufacture of fentanyl.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced that 22 Chinese nationals, four Chinese pharmaceutical companies, and three Americans had been arrested in what Patel referred to as an "unprecedented" operation.
"We're done playing whack-a-mole," Patel said during a press conference in Cincinnati.
"We didn't arrest a couple of people. We charged an enterprise-wide system in mainland China to include dozens of individuals and banks and companies that are responsible for making these lethal precursors and shipping them here."
The investigation began in Ohio and eventually targeted individuals and companies in China. The operation was the first to specifically target major Chinese sources for these precursor chemicals.
Eric Michael Payne, a 39-year-old resident of Tipp City, Ohio, was the apparent ringleader of the American operation that bought the chemicals used to cut fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine from China and sold them to dealers all across southern Ohio.
Also indicted were Payne's girlfriend, 24-year-old Auriyon Tresan Rayford, also of Tipp City, as well as 39-year-old Atlanta resident Ciandrea Bryne Davis. Rayford and Davis are also accused of sending $60,000 in cryptocurrency payments to Chinese nationals associated with the drug companies.
“Our indictment alleges that Chinese companies and affiliated foreign nationals intentionally and openly marketed, delivered, and exported to the United States controlled substances and other compounds that they knew would be used by domestic drug dealers to increase the yield and potency of fentanyl distributed in this country,” said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Dominick S. Gerace II. “As explained in court documents, these deadly drug mixtures were then sold directly into our communities here in southern Ohio.”
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A drop in the bucket.
I’m becoming more and more of the opinion that ALL H1B visa holders and student visa holders need to be canceled and sent back until they are VERY thoroughly vetted. And green card holders need to be very carefully investigated.
I’m with you on this one.
Absolutely.
Seems Chinks are making great headway into drug business in the USA.
Let’s do to these Chicom druggers what China would do to an American running the same operation there……..summary public execution.
Exactly
It is WAY past time for the left to be repaid in kind— and like you said, for the Chicom drug dealers to be summarily executed — and if their government complains tell them their citizens had a head on collision with FAFO.
I don’t think any of the Chinese suspecats are in US custody.
Whether or not the Chinese do anything about their end of it waits to be seen.
Unrelated to this particular story, I highly recommended watching any of the several TV shows that are centered on smuggling and contraband swept up by Border Patrol, Customs and Homeland Security...There are many but one is “Contraband: Seized at the Border.”
The mentality of people stopped bringing anything and everything across our borders be it CA or TX or Canadian is mind boggling...We have to thank those agents for the work they do as they go about their job with politeness and don’t give up getting answers from people they know are lying. Some with humor and I’m sure they don’t get many laughs in a days time.
The agents actually have to tear ENGINES/cars/trucks/semis apart and find drugs that are in places the cartel’s experts are able to DEVISE for hiding and the agents have to spend hours getting to the drugs...the K9’s need special recognition also - for the treat they know they’ll get when they locate drugs or even plants - specifically trained on certain smells of plants that are not allowed to be brought into our country.
Well worth the time...and you will appreciate how hard they work to keep these drugs off our streets and out of our neighborhoods..and from the grief they cause for families.
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