Ten people have been charged following the takedown of a Philadelphia-based drug trafficking organization, officials said.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania David Metcalf, FBI Philadelphia Special Agent in Charge Wayne Jacobs and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel held a news conference to share details about the years-long investigation that resulted in the dismantling of the Jones-Basley drug trafficking organization, which prosecutors said distributed narcotics and cocaine supplied by Mexican cartels.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis prosecution is not just of a drug trafficking network. It is the decapitation of a conspiracy to inject poison into our streets and ruin our communities through narcotics,\u201d said Metcalf. \u201cIn an organizational sense, and in the context of a narcotic supply chain, you should think of this case as a prosecution of the principals, the executives, the leaders, the founders, the owners, whatever term you want to use, these are the men who cannot be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n
NBC10 is updating this story with new details. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten people have been charged following the takedown of a Philadelphia-based drug trafficking organization, officials said. On Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-292323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}