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More than 600 Mexican cartel members were arrested during an interagency operation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), making it one of the largest arrest operations in history.



The agencies announced the results of the plan, called Project Python, at a press briefing on Wednesday, saying the DEA-led operation spent the last six months monitoring the activities of those they arrested, The Hill reported. In total, there were 600 Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) arrests and 350 indictments, as well as a significant seizure of money and drugs in the nationwide raid on Wednesday, the agencies said. According to one report, the agencies seized 15,000 kilos of meth and nearly $20 million.

“Project Python marks the most comprehensive action to date in the Department of Justice’s campaign to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately destroy CJNG,” Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski said in a statement.
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“CJNG is one of the fastest-growing, transnational criminal organizations in Mexico, and among the most prolific methamphetamine producers in the world,” DEA leaders said in the written statement.

Benczkowski cited an executive order President Donald Trump signed on Feb. 9, 2020, that directed federal law enforcement “to thwart transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including criminal gangs, cartels, racketeering organizations, and other groups engaged in illicit activities that present a threat to public safety and national security.”

“When President Trump signed an Executive Order prioritizing the dismantlement of transnational criminal organizations, the Department of Justice answered the call and took direct aim at CJNG. We deemed CJNG one of the highest-priority transnational organized crime threats we face,” he said. “And with Project Python, we are delivering results in the face of that threat for the American people.”

Project Python is the single-largest strike by U.S. authorities against the CJNG, Dhillon said in a written statement. The operation was aimed at mid- to high-level associates of the CJNG in the United States, rather than the high-profile targets, officials said.

Investigators will use the data they collected in Project Python to “identify and map out the cartel’s logistical nodes and pathways,” Benczkowski said.

“This operation is one of the largest, concentrated actions against a single criminal organization in many years,” Dhillon said. “By removing mid- and high-level members, we inhibit CJNG’s ability to regenerate and to continue to threaten our communities and neighborhoods with their deadly drugs.”

The cartel is active in major U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Houston and Atlanta, the agencies said. The DOJ and DEA also announced a superseding indictment on charges against Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” the leader of CJNG, for allegedly continuing criminal enterprise.

“This is just the beginning,” Dhillon added.
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$20mm more to help the economy...

Wonder if the virus measures made them easier to catch....

The War on Drugs continues ad nauseam by going after the suppliers.

It will never stop until they learn to go after the demand....until the demand dries up it will keep on into perpetuity.

maybe need swamp people ? Troy > shoot`em

Stopping where the cartels are getting the chemicals to make all this meth might just help donncha think?

War on drugs my ass

I agree, wasted effort. It seems like demand has been growing, not shrinking. So maybe we are attacking the wrong side of the problem. What if we hit the demand side with a few billion investment?

It might, but theres too much money involved. Creative people will figure a way...they always have.

Got passed by three fully loaded black suburbans hauling ass on the freeway last week with fully blacked out windows here in the Central Valley of Kommiefornia on I5. You know the ones with the flashing blue lights in the upper right hand of the windshield. Wonder if it was related. Could have also been La Migra as well.

So let the dumbasses have it
All the law has accomplished is to create a black market same as prohibition the cure is worse than the problem

Freakonomics hit it on the head.

Take out supplier - supply dwindles, price goes up and it becomes economically enticing for someone to step in and become a new supplier (new dealer/cartel etc)

If you simply locked up every user or executed them immediately - make USING (demand) so reprehensible that to do so is an instant death sentence or locked away for life - zero tolerance (not advocating that - simply applying it as example) - the demand drops, price drops. Economic incentive to produce/deal goes away and suppliers walk away from the market. Like I'm sure any other industry when demand drops.

Trump is shutting down the child trafficking business that the deep state, Zero, Hillary, Piglousy and Schifty has brought to the US.

Gates, Bob Iger, Bezos, Zuckerberg and many Hollywierd elites arent happy about this. It's why the left and dims tried like hell to stop the wall.

It's hard to carry a child over the wall.

Start executing the MF’s, but we can’t do that. It might hurt their feelings!

How about a Federal Death Penalty for drug trafficking over certain amounts?

Absolutely.

Too may rich kids were getting arrested. Was keeping them out of law and medical schools. So they changed focus to dealers.

The US has been running black ops for almost a year South of the border, targeting cartels. Our hitters haven’t been taking prisoners. Straight up hunting with unlimited tags.

😎

Here Trump gives a clue re Haiti and the Hillary crew. Though some of you may forget, hes not through with her yet. He doesnt make idle banter.

Did the sky fall when alcohol became legal again?

Had the world ended before the government stopped the sale of narcotics over the counter?

Exactamundo. It is a simple solution to an extremely complex problem, but we as a society will refuse to even consider it...so it goes on. But if you were really serious about it, thats the ONLY way to stop it.

Yeah but that would result in the same punishment all our other death penalties have....nothing. ( except of course huge bills to the taxpayers to keep these schitt bags alive...)

Stop the outrageous profit stop the crime

Just as predicted on QANON.....just saying! I believe very little of the “Q” stuff....but, that’s pretty coincidental! memtb

Great timing, too bad this event isn't going to put peoples concerns to rest or change the national narrative.
It would have better if they provided the population with quality face masks early in the pandemic.

So,the brain trust advocates punishing the users.Let's go after the millions of users. That has been a decades long failed policy.

Arresting and jailing the millions of users is preferable to arresting and jailing the tens of thousands of manufacturers and dealers.LOL.

Well, the open sale of narcotics has caused several wars. For instance, multiple iterations of the Boxer Rebellion. At some point, people get tired of their children being poisoned.

I don’t think the war on drugs is about the drugs, it’s about the (untaxed) money and the corrupt power it buys.

Can't have a good ritual without good drugs






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Turn them over to the pharm companies to be drug testing guinea pigs.

It's almost like you didn't comprehend the post or understand how a market works and has been proven to work for 100's of years.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

So,let's continue down the road of failed policies.

If the policy is that Drugs=bad - the FAILED policy is going after the producer, NOT the user.

Drug use is a market, not really different than any other. Buyer/seller.

Show me any market that's ever been killed by removing the seller and NOT the buyer. Going after sellers only incentives more sellers to enter as creates an economic incentive to enter.

There's a reason why hood rats and tweakers become DEALERS to make money and not USERS. So long as you can make money being a dealer (because of the user) - people will step in and fill that void.

Now if you want to talk drugs legal or not - that's separate.

Good deal!!!! We need to arrest more, place them in dense-packed prisons and, let the Corona Virus take hold.

Everything in a nutshell!!

Attack both supply and demand. Why not, unless you're a meth-head?

Go after the sellers and the buyers! No one gets a break! Put all on some island, let them figure it out! Attu would be a good place, nothing else there! One winter and you would have 90% of them gone!

Now is not a good time to be in prison. It's got to be the one place that's worse than a cruise ship.

But ya'll libbys are letting em out of prison

600 is a good start, I think an entire tongue is good proof they are dead, No need for expensive trials and transporting them here for trial. Those Satans in Mexico deserve no less nor do the ones here pushing it . The stuff is so cheap on the street that it moves people of "harmless" drugs like cannabis and puts them on the permanent drug list.

How much wall can we build with $10 mil?

When do the drone strikes on manufacturing facilities begin? On the cartels' haciendas?

Tom Clancy had it right in "Clear and Present Danger", well right up until the US abandoned their "operators" in hostile country.

The leaders of the cartels should be put on the same list as Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and a host of recently departed terrorist leaders. Terminated with extreme prejudice.

Could be why Mexico agreed to 27,000 troops on the border.

Arrest 600 today, Turn loose thousands tomorrow. Makes sense doesn't it.

Jail is a big fail. We need to flog users.

If the policy is that Drugs=bad - the FAILED policy is going after the producer, NOT the user.
You're dreaming.How many users are in prison compared to manufacturers? Is it 1,000 to 1,maybe 100,000 to 1?

This is the failed policy that you are so cavalierly endorsing.

Show me any market that's ever been killed by removing the seller and NOT the buyer. Going after sellers only incentives incentivizes more sellers to enter as creates an economic incentive to enter.
The capitalist philosophy,which we use in our form of Demoracy,a Constitutional Republic,requires that specific rules,regulations and taxes apply.No such restrictions apply in the black market,so your analysis is deeply flawed.Attempting to arrest users has failed and is the very policy that you are endorsing.There may be an estimated 15 million users and if you believe arresting these people will end the drug problem,you are not only mistaken but naive as well.

There's a reason why hood rats and tweakers become DEALERS to make money and not USERS. So long as you can make money being a dealer (because of the user) - people will step in and fill that void.
I won't even address this nonsensical statement.

Now if you want to talk drugs legal or not - that's separate
What in the hell does this mean.This discussion began with a reference to illicit drugs.

This problem is far more complex than can be discussed on such a forum.The best analysis indicates that a multi-faceted solution is needed and will produce the best results.One of those facets is to destroy the manufacturers thereby making it extremely dangerous to manufacture drugs.This makes it less likely for new people willing to sacrifice their life in pursuit of illegal drug money.Treatment is also another avenue which will help people rid themselves of their addiction.Incarceration of the users is simplistic,a failure and not the solution.