Posted on 09/19/2006 2:52:37 PM PDT by Bean Counter
SEATTLE - Federal drug enforcement agents have arrested 46 people and seized 1,500 pounds of "BC Bud" marijuana, 23 kilograms of cocaine, and 1,100 tablets of ecstacy (MDMA) in the bust of a major drug operation in the Pacific Northwest.
The two-year investigation involved the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and numerous state and local law enforcement agencies.
The initial investigation, dubbed "Operation Frogger," ended in November of 2005 with the dismantling of the organization that smuggled marijuana from Canada and distributed the drug throughout the western United States. In turn, the group allegedly purchased cocaine and distributed it throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada. In this case, 22 people were arrested, and 23 kilograms of cocaine, 1,500 pounds of pot and $1.3 million cash and assets were seized.
The "Frogger" investigation is linked to two other investigations. In a case dubbed "This Buds Pho You," because targets of the investigation would refer to marijuana as "Pho," a type of Vietnamese soup, another 22 people were arrested in the Seattle area on Sept. 6, 2006. In connection with those arrests, agents seized more than 450 marijuana plants, 1,100 tablets of MDMA, some cocaine and more than $3.2 million in cash and assets.
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There's going to be some serious weeping in the Seattle 'burbs tonite...
"Operation Frogger"... ribbet, ribbet, ribbet!
Did a little Googling and apparently a bale of marijuana weighs 125 lbs. So we're talking maybe a dozen bales seized as a result of all this effort. I have no idea how the quantities of other drugs seized relate to the total traffic in such drugs, but if the marijuana is any example then I suspect the results generally were pretty trivial.
Glaucoma?
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