{"id":249939,"date":"2026-04-28T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:55:07","slug":"ocoee-pd-assists-with-drug-trafficking-group-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249939\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocoee PD assists with drug trafficking group takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h940813-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Ocoee Police Department shared some exciting news with its residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h940813-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">On Monday, April 27, Ocoee officers stood alongside partners at the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation and the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office to announce the takedown of a drug trafficking group in Central Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h940813-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to its announcement, it was a major Central Florida drug trafficking group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h940813-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The operation, also known as &#8220;Operation It&#8217;s A Trap,&#8221; consisted of months of investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h940813-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Together, the Ocoee Police Department, the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation and the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office seized more than 6 kilograms of cocaine, $1.1 million in cash, nearly 30 firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h940813-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">The operation also resulted in multiple arrests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h940813-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;We are proud of the work our officer assigned to MBI contributed to this multi-agency effort,&#8221; the police department posted. &#8220;Partnerships like these are critical in keeping dangerous drugs and illegal firearms out of our communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ocoee Police Department shared some exciting news with its residents.\u00a0 On Monday, April 27, Ocoee officers stood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-249939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}