Jim Kouri
Law Enforcement Examiner
3/6/2012
The largest police dragnet against a transnational organized crime gang ever in the United States resulted in close to 2,000 arrests, and the seizure of upwards of $70 million in U.S. currency, 2,775 pounds of methamphetamine, 2,800 kilograms of cocaine, 1,000 pounds of heroin, and more than seven tons of marijuana, as well $3.8 million in other assets, according to a report obtained by the Law Enforcement Examiner from the National Association of Chiefs of Police yesterday.
“Operation Delirium is the second successful, strategic and surgical strike to disrupt and destroy one of the most violent Mexican cartels, La Familia,” a narcotics enforcement officer told the Law Enforcement Examiner.
Operation Delirium is the result of police intelligence gathered during the course of a previous effort targeting La Familia, known as Operation Coronado, which was concluded in 2009…
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“This is devastating to the organization,” said an FBI official involved with the investigation. “We’re chopping off the head of LulzSec.”…
