Posted on 08/19/2005 11:37:46 AM PDT by nypokerface
WASHINGTON - Drug enforcement agents have arrested some 160 people in four U.S. cities and two countries and have broken up three major drug transportation rings with international ties in a 10-month drug-trafficking sting revealed Friday.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said the people arrested were involved in 27 U.S. distribution groups that have moved enough methamphetamine into the United States to have provided the drug to more than 22,700 users a month.
Arrests in the sting — dubbed Operation Three Hour Tour by the Drug Enforcement Administration — were made Thursday in Los Angeles, New York, New Haven, Conn., Des Moines, Iowa, the Dominican Republican and Colombia. Other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies also participated in the sting. More arrests could occur, the DEA said.
"The streets from Bogota to Los Angeles are no longer a free trade zone for the criminals arrested today," DEA Administrator Karen Tandy said in a statement. "Rest assured: The DEA will be relentless in targeting drug traffickers and their illicit money until they no longer have the assets or means to put their poisons into the hands of our children."
The three Mexican and Colombian drug transportation organizations and their U.S. counterparts smuggled and distributed 4,000 pounds of cocaine, 20 to 30 pounds of heroin and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine monthly throughout this country, the DEA said.
The agency calculates that 545 grams of methamphetamine produced one pound of product and a single gram is enough for one hit. The DEA said those figures are on the high end of methamphetamine use.
Along with the arrests, officers seized 52 firearms, including a .50-caliber assault rifle with armor piercing ammunition, confiscated 10,000 doses of Ecstasy, 58 vehicles, 216 pounds of marijuana and $5.5 million in cash.
The announcement of the arrests came a day after the Bush administration announced new efforts to battle methamphetamine abuse, including a training laboratory for police agencies and $16.2 million in grants to focus on treatment of addicts.
That eeeevil gubmint tryin' to deprive the workin man of his relaxin' drugs...
< /sarcasm >
Along with the arrests, officers seized 52 firearms, including a .50-caliber assault rifle with armor piercing ammunition, confiscated 10,000 doses of Ecstasy, 58 vehicles, 216 pounds of marijuana and $5.5 million in cash.
Now THAT, is a stash!
Please note evil .50 caliber armor piercing assault rifle.
(Does it come with a armor piercing bayonet too?)
I would not like to fire this mythical .50 Cal assault rifle. Must be a real killer to hold on the target at full auto! Armor piercing too! When will the media find out what they are talking about before the print idiotic statements?
"DEA Breaks Up Drug Pipelines"
War on drugs yawn. Will they now open up the pipelines for crude oil and gasoline?
ping.
Supply and demand. We keep demanding it, they'll keep supplying it. To legalize drugs and regulate them is the only answer.
Sh*t. Back in the day, that'd be barely enough for a Saturday, for me.
This prohibition, like any other, just creates a market for drug trafficing and makes it profitable for some people to be criminals. Abolish the drug laws, and money will stop flowing into the pockets of that element of society. And that element, these days, includes jihadists and Columbian Marxists.
not reported....
10 new drug pipelines have just opened for business
Operation Three Hour Tour? That's hilarious. Did they nab Gilligan too?
Operation Three Stooges would be more appropriate. Do they really think that spending all this taxpayer money does anything at all to stop the flow of drugs? The only thing that will stop it if people no longer want them, which ain't going to happen in the projectable future.
That's just working up the nerve to go to Confession. OOPS, I must mean "Reconciliation".
"A guy could have a nice time in Los Vegas with that."
Only 10?
.50 Beowulf would be managable..
Most thinking people including those who work with the drug addicted are not willing to legalize this dangerous stuff...two wrongs do not make a right.
two wrongs do not make a right.
Childishly nonresponsive.
prohibition, like any other, just creates a market for drug trafficing and makes it profitable for some people to be criminals
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