Posted on 03/11/2020 12:29:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Wednesday that more than 600 arrests have been made as a result of an interagency operation cracking down on Mexican cartel activity.
“Project Python,” a DEA-led initiative, targeted members of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). According to the DEA, over the last six months federal law enforcement officials have been monitoring the activities of the accused.
The operation resulted in more than 600 arrests nationwide, 350 indictments and “significant seizures of money and drugs,” according to the agencies.
“Project Python marks the most comprehensive action to date in the Department of Justice’s campaign to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately destroy CJNG,” Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski said in a statement.
Benczkowski cited an executive order President Trump passed shortly after Trump was inaugurated in 2017 that condemned cartel operations in the U.S. and directed federal law enforcement to use the Threat Mitigation Working Group, which was put in place by the Obama administration in 2011.
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...The charges come a day after Sessions announced the creation of a new task force aimed at taking down transnational organized crime. The attorney general named five crime syndicates on which the task force will focus: MS-13, the CJNG, the Sinaloa cartel, the Gulf cartel and Lebanese Hezbollah. “The same day I was sworn in as attorney general, President Trump ordered me to disrupt and dismantle these groups,” Sessions said Monday.
Jeff Sessions Is Cracking Down on One of Mexico’s Biggest Drug Cartels
www.rollingstone.com
2 mins read OCT 17, 2018
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/cartel-mexico-el-mencho-sessions-indictment-738990/
On Tuesday, the Justice Deparment announced 15 indictments against the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion
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