Los Angeles County and federal law enforcement officials executed a search warrant and recovered more than 1,300 pounds of methamphetamine worth approximately $12.5 million during a search carried out last week, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n
According to the Los Angeles Port Police, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Los Angeles High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Group 48 and New York Field Division initiated a joint investigation in January into a drug- trafficking operation organized by the Sinaloa Cartel in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
In the months since, 20,000 fentanyl pills and 20 pounds of methamphetamine were seized through various operations tied to the investigation, officials said.<\/p>\n
Investigators also located a secret methamphetamine lab that was operating in a remote desert area in Los Angeles County, authorities said. A search warrant was executed July 28 by agencies involved in the probe, along with the Hawthorne and El Segundo police departments, leading to the seizure of 1,378 pounds of methamphetamine — both crystal and highly condensed liquid narcotics valued at about $12.5 million.<\/p>\n
Investigators also recovered approximately $80,000 in cash, along with three Mexican nationals suspected of manufacturing the narcotics, who were all taken into custody.<\/p>\n
“This major seizure follows another successful narcotics investigation in Riverside County, where officers recovered 119 kilograms of cocaine, two firearms, and identified three suspects,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County and federal law enforcement officials executed a search warrant and recovered more than 1,300 pounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,137,50,49],"class_list":["post-423363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}