Posted on 08/07/2019 8:07:09 PM PDT by thecodont
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — A drug pipeline into San Francisco’s crime-ridden Tenderloin District, fueled by Honduran nationals who lived in the East Bay, has been busted up by federal agents who have arrested 32 suspects, authorities announced Wednesday.
Chris Nielsen, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in San Francisco, told reporters that an investigation was launched in late 2017 in cooperation with San Francisco and Richmond police and uncovered two independent drug operations stretching from Mexico to Seattle.
The drugs hitting the streets according to the DEA were methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.
“These are small quantities of drugs, but lots and lots and lots of small quantities of drugs,” Nielsen said. The bindles fed drug habits in the Tenderloin and beyond. DEA agents intercepted 1.5 kilos of cocaine and 2.5 kilos of heroin headed for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Of the drugs coming in from Mexico, Nielsen said, “It’s not clear yet which cartel is involved down there in Culiacan, Mexico, but drugs would come into Southern California, Los Angeles into the Bay Area–they would either go to the Tenderloin or sometimes the drugs would go up to the Pacific Northwest.”
In the Bay Area, the mostly Honduran nationals lived in the East Bay and commuted daily into San Francisco’s Tenderloin District to sell drugs.
The “commuter drug dealers” acted like “independent contractors,” Nielsen said, traveling on BART or in carpools to peddle the drugs that were shipped into the Bay Area from Mexico and Honduras.
Sanctuary cities are nothing more than cover for cartels and gangs to do their thing here and escape prosecution.
makes ya wonder what some of these public officials are on ..
And these cities had no homeless before legalization?
Should we ban tobacco because we pick up the tab for the cancers it causes?
And these cities had no homeless before legalization?
Also, I note that you make no mention of the legalizing states Alaska, Nevada, Michigan, Maine, Vermont, or Massachusetts.
Why is that?
Yep and smoking banana peels too!
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