300 Busted In National Drug Raid 38 Of Them Were Here In The ATL

The biggest drug bust in the ATL since BMF!!!!

I thought after the BMF raid that happened 5 years ago, this would be the last of any type of major drug cartel showing it’s face in the ATL. Well that couldn’t be further from the truth. It seems the Mexican drug cartel had it’s root heavy in the ATL market right up underneath our noses.

More than 300 people were arrested nationwide Wednesday, including 38 in metro Atlanta, in the largest-ever enforcement operation against a Mexican drug cartel, authorities said. The operation dealt a severe blow to La Familia Michoacana, often called La Familia, a drug trafficking organization responsible for the murders of Mexican police officers as well as kidnappings and assaults, authorities said.

Gwinnett County police officers raided 10 locations in that county alone. At a house in Lawrenceville — a “conversion laboratory” where La Familia members worked — authorities said they recovered 174 pounds of crystal meth.

Authorities seized 17 kilos of cocaine, 13 weapons and $50,000 in the raids across metro Atlanta.

Agents also raided locations in Dallas, New York, Boston and in California, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

“La Familia’s leadership here is out of business today,” Rodney Benson, special agent in charge of the DEA’s Atlanta Field Division, said at a press conference at the Gwinnett courthouse.

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