Transportation network attracts drug traffickers
Since spring of last year, federal and local law enforcement officials have investigated a Mexican drug trafficking organization with a Metro Atlanta connection.
It’s the latest example of drug traffickers using the region’s transportation network.
Whether its meth, heroin or cocaine, cartels see Metro Atlanta as a place to hire workers, sell and transport drugs.
“It’s a large population,” said Harry Sommers. “It’s got great interstate highways.”
Sommers is the special agent in charge of the U-S Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field office.
“There are large elements of Mexican drug trafficking organizations working here in Atlanta that are feeding Atlanta with the drugs that are being sold here as well as it’s always been a distribution point for the Eastern United States.”
From last September to this May, officials made arrests in Douglas and Cobb counties, seized more than 60 kilos of cocaine and more than $2 million.
Sommers says the Operation, named “Freak Nasty”, is ongoing.
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