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Powell is a breaking news reporter at CBS News. On Oct. 9, U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped a truck crossing from Mexico into the United States at San Diego's Otay Mesa and found 3,014 pounds (1,367.1 kilograms) of methamphetamine, the agency said Sunday. Updated 09/21/2021, 5:55 p.m. Operation Crystal Shield is a nationwide effort involving 70 to 80 investigators in nine cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and Atlanta. They worked with authorities in Arizona and it started to grow. in more than a decade, authorities say Photos supplied by Orange County district attorney's office showing the 821 pounds of. A number of law enforcement agencies worked together on a five-month investigation that led to a drug bust. How Alaska became one of fentanyl's deadliest frontiers, FDA panel backs allowing a naloxone spray to be sold over-the-counter, Biden to tout fentanyl smuggling crackdown in State of the Union. Another was arrested at about the same time at the Marriott Hotel in Woodland Hills. Detectives found that the average size per cultivation at farms increased to 15 greenhouses, up from eight per farm in the year prior. The DEA says the drugs were linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel and would have ended up in the hands of addicts on LA streets. Millions of unsuspecting people have the grim reaper looking over their shoulder and they have no idea how close they actually are to dying from taking a single pill, Orange County Dist. Despite these staggering figures, a law enforcement source in Mexico said the loss of the cash could hurt the drug ring more than the loss of cocaine. 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The 10-day sting is the largest eradication of illegal marijuana cultivations in the history of the department. This may be the biggest meth bust in American. The search at the Sherman Oaks apartment turned up little, but Dist. Charles P. Gutensohn, chief of the Drug Enforcement Administrations cocaine investigations section in Washington, said Friday that the Sylmar drug bust appeared to have uncovered a major hand-off point used by Mexican smugglers to deliver cocaine to Colombian distributors, whose networks extend across the United States. On Oct. 9, U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped a truck crossing from Mexico into the United States at San Diego's Otay Mesa and found 3,014 pounds of methamphetamine, the agency said Sunday.. Agents said the confiscated drugs will be inventoried at the warehouse before being taken to a federal facility for safekeeping. "The biggest thanks is going to have to go to my detectives for their hard work," said Acting Salinas Police Chief Roberto Filice. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Its going to bring tears to some peoples eyes, Gates said. DEA announces biggest meth bust in U.S. history in Southern California Deaths related to methamphetamine use have been on the rise in San Diego in recent years. Los Angeles records largest drug bust in sheriff's department history One of the largest drug busts in Monterey County, California history was pulled off when nearly $2 million worth of illegal drugs were seized by Salinas police and federal agents, as. More than $60M in meth, cocaine seized in one of LA County's biggest The Complicated Reality of Santa Barbara's Biggest Ever Drug Bust Sept. 30, 1989 12 AM PT Times Staff Writers In what was described as the largest narcotics haul ever, federal agents seized almost 20 tons of cocaine--worth up to $6 billion on the street--at a. Five search warrants were executed on September 9, and four individuals were arrested in Salinas, and another four were arrested in Yuma County, Arizona in connection with the ongoing investigation. We have to continue to do everything we can to combat this deadly drug epidemic and save lives.. The bundles found in the boxes tested positive for methamphetamine, according to the statement. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. The Las Vegas Sun newspaper said that three Los Angeles men, one of them a former Mexican customs official, were arrested by DEA agents at an expensive Las Vegas hotel in connection with the seizure. pic.twitter.com/y21yWExTT9. According to a post published to the Salinas Police Department Facebook page on September 16, the department's investigations unit worked with the Monterey County District Attorney's Office, Salinas Violence Suppression Task Force and the Homeland Security Investigations Monterey Office. With fentanyl in an estimated 40 percent of street drugs, its not a matter of if but when someone you know and love dies from fentanyl, Spitzer said Wednesday. Officials say they believe international cartels are behind the illegal large-scale marijuana farms. SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- Two alleged drug dealers were behind bars Wednesday after what Orange County authorities described as the largest drug bust in the past 16 years. California Two men arrested in largest drug bust in O.C. There, amid plastic owls, plaster figurines, pinatas and a painting of Christ walking on the water, were boxes containing thousands of one-kilo packages of cocaine, stacked in piles up to eight feet tall. At the time, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said it was the second-largest bust ever, behind only a 5,000-pound bust in December 2019 in Laredo, Texas. 2. Four residents of Tijuana, Mexico, face federal drug trafficking charges in connection with a Southern California methamphetamine seizure thatauthorities say was "record-breaking" because of its size. Record 20 Tons of Cocaine Seized - Los Angeles Times Just north of L.A. in Antelope Valley, California, officials tracked down, identified and destroyed 70 to 80 outhouses filled with illegal marijuana plots in the open desert. Newsweek previously reported that according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. Updated With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the United States, state governments are scrambling for solutions. "This is an issue that is plaguing, and will continue to plague, if we do not make it very uncomfortable and one way to make it uncomfortable is to prosecute," Barger said. July 9, 2021 / 10:14 AM Also seized were 893 pounds (405 kilograms) of cocaine and 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms) of heroin. Either they feel awfully secure, or this (loss) isnt that significant to them, said John Zienter, special agent in charge of the DEAs Los Angeles office. Federal authorities on Wednesday showed off results of Southern California raids early this month that. The 20-foot commercial truck, which was carrying 148 meth bundles, crossed the border Thursday through the Otay Mesa Commercial Port of Entry in San Diego, the US Attorneys Office said in a statement. "The origins of the sheriffs department date back to 1850 when this was the Wild West," the sheriff said. More than 200 locations were served with search warrants. But crackdowns off Florida have pushed major importation routes westward, and the Colombian cartels now subcontract some of the smuggling duty to Mexican middlemen. These middlemen are responsible for moving drugs through Central America and over the Southwest border into the United States. An international drug ring was busted following a joint operation between the US and . Meth bust at California border crossing is likely largest in U.S ATM thieves use glue and 'tap' function to drain accounts at Chase, Alpine Village in Torrance closes after more than five decades, Gas prices rise for 31st consecutive day in LA County. Villanueva revealed to Fox News that these locations are hot spots for criminal behavior with reports of cartel members threatening residents with firearms. Los Angeles police said the total amount of cocaine seized in Sylmar was 39,600 pounds, or 19.8 tons.