adminTempe Police Narcotics Detectives announced the six-month investigation’s conclusion on Friday that also includes the confiscation of an airplane, 10 vehicles and 14 firearms. The cartel often described as the largest and most powerful in the Western Hemisphere is headed by Leonel Galvez Leal, Norberto Meza Montoya, and Jose Alonzo Rodriguez Rosas.
“Operation Nayarit Stampede marks an end to an extensive poly drug trafficking organization that stretched across the Mexico border and into Arizona and beyond,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman in a release.Police named New York, Alabama, and California as being recipient states of the cartel’s delivery. The drugs were transported through hidden compartments in commercial tractor-trailers crossing the Mexican border according to police. “DEA and our partners have taken
large quantities of drugs, millions of dollars in drug trafficker assets, and powerful weapons. We will continue to do everything in our power to bring to justice those who try to poison our communities,” Coleman said. — Daily Mail.
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