The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been cracking down on the operations of the Mexican Sinaloan Drug Cartel (CDS) in Kentucky and adjoining states. Last week, DEA Agents arrested 51 people with ties to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
In addition to the arrests, DEA agents and their law enforcement partners seized 133 firearms, nearly nine thousand counterfeit pills, and more than $78,000.00 in cash.
As evidence of this continued crackdown, the Paducah DEA Office recently put Jay Brown behind bars for the next 15 years for his role in a conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and fentanyl, and money laundering.
In early September, agents conducted a targeted sweep across Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The Drug Enforcement Administration, working with our federal, state, and local law enforcement counterparts, arrested 51 individuals with ties to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
Agents seized more than 133 firearms, $78,000 in cash, and nearly 9,000 counterfeit pills.
In July, Hector Campoy, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in federal prison for cocaine trafficking, following a joint DEA / Louisville Metro Police Department investigation.
And, in August, the DEA arrested five people in Western Kentucky after seizing four pounds of meth, two handguns, and $10,000 in cash.
All of these drug operations were aimed at the Sinaloa Cartel, which the DEA says is "one of the world’s most powerful drug cartels and one of the largest producers and traffickers of Fentanyl and other illicit drugs, including methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, to the United States."
What effect do you think these busts have on Sinaloan Cartel operations in Kentucky?
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
I would like to see civil asset forfeiture laws changed to require a linkage to specific criminal behavior, or at least a record of serious career criminality by people who are relieved of their property [like the miscreants in this story]. I know that's a lot to ask of govt, especially in this contentious climate. Other than that, more enforcement action, please...
Good news. Those are some very bad dudes. Keep it coming!