Over 700 arrested amid major gang and drug crackdown in Louisiana

Authorities person been making arrests arsenic federal, authorities and section instrumentality enforcement ace down against convulsive transgression and drugs successful Louisiana.

A multi-month propulsion to spell aft convulsive gangs and cause peddlers astir the Bayou State yielded 742 arrests arsenic good arsenic the seizure of drugs, according to a report.

The undertaking that started successful October resulted successful the betterment of 176 firearms successful the authorities and immense amounts of drugs, including fentanyl and different substances, KTAL/KMSS reported.

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FBI New Orleans peculiar cause successful complaint Jonathan Tapp and others (FBI New Orleans connected X)

"The FBI and our partners utilized targeted enforcement successful precocious transgression areas to get cause dealers, convulsive gangs, and criminals disconnected the streets," FBI New Orleans Special Agent successful Charge Jonathan Tapp said successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital. "We are focused connected cause cartels and convulsive gangs wherever they are operating each implicit the country. We are targeting their proviso chains, their financing, and arresting their leaders and transgression associates." 

In a connection obtained by Fox News Digital, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana Zachary A. Keller said, "This cognition demonstrates the powerfulness of federal, state, and section instrumentality enforcement moving unneurotic to dismantle convulsive transgression networks. The arrests and seizures we’ve made item the superior menace posed by cartel‑connected trafficking successful Louisiana, and we volition proceed to clasp those who bring deadly drugs and firearms into our communities accountable."

FBI New Orleans noted successful a Monday station connected X, "The FBI and local, state, and national partners from Central and North Louisiana denote the extremity of a 4 period cognition targeting violent, cause dealing gangs. More than 700 arrests were made statewide on with the seizure of much than 100 firearms, astir 300 pounds of amerciable narcotics, and much than $250,000 successful cash. The powerfulness of #Partnerships successful action."

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Authorities showed disconnected firearms seized during the operation. (U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana)

A Tuesday property merchandise from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana discussed a crackdown dubbed Operation NOLA Safe that has truthful acold yielded 175 arrests.

"Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) New Orleans Field Office, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans, announced the result of a large convulsive transgression abatement cognition starring up to the Mardi Gras Season, Operation NOLA Safe," the merchandise notes.

"To day Operation NOLA Safe has resulted successful 175 arrests, and the seizure of 114 firearms, 20.367 kg of cocaine, 1.063 kg of fentanyl, 102.006 kg of marijuana, 41,909 tapentadol pills and different quantities of amerciable narcotics and medicine medications. We expect the cognition volition effect successful long-term, follow-on investigations," the merchandise explains.

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Photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana (U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana)

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"We're getting the occupation done with quality – surveillance – and leads that we're getting from the community," Tapp said, according to the property release. "Our agents and task unit officers are utilizing their corporate cognition and expertise to halt transgression enactment successful its tracks. These aren't conscionable investigations oregon statistic for us. We eat, sleep, and respire convulsive crime. We are committed to making New Orleans 1 of the safest places successful the country."