{"id":428467,"date":"2026-09-07T03:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428467\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:02:15","slug":"feds-target-dangerous-illegal-aliens-violent-offenders-in-90-day-fort-worth-crime-push-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428467\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Target Dangerous Illegal Aliens, Violent Offenders In 90-Day Fort Worth Crime Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal prosecutors filed 23 new cases in Fort Worth in less than two weeks under a 90-day crackdown targeting narcotics traffickers, violent offenders and dangerous illegal aliens, the Justice Department announced<\/a> Saturday, September 5.<\/p>\n

Operation New Day formally began August 24. Since then, the Fort Worth Division has seized<\/a> more than 20 kilograms of methamphetamine, along with distribution quantities of crack cocaine and powder cocaine, DOJ said.<\/p>\n

New charges include possession of a machine gun, escape from detention, narcotics distribution and illegal reentry into the United States, according to the release<\/a>. No defendants, case numbers or category-by-category totals appeared in the announcement.<\/p>\n

“North Texas will not serve as a refuge for individuals who persist in violating federal law,” U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould said in the release.<\/p>\n

A separate immigration tally<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors have charged 184 defendants with illegal reentry after removal across the Northern District of Texas since June 1, according to a separate August 27 release<\/a>. That districtwide figure is not the Operation New Day total.<\/p>\n

Prior convictions among that broader group included aggravated sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child, a fatal hit-and-run, aggravated robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a public servant, DOJ said. DOJ has not said whether any of those 184 cases also fall under Operation New Day.<\/p>\n

A previous Fort Worth crackdown<\/p>\n

Another Fort Worth initiative, Operation Showdown, resulted in 76 arrests, as previously reported<\/a> by The Dallas Express.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement recovered 287 firearms, including 147 machine gun conversion devices, and close to 23 kilograms of narcotics, according to a Justice Department release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors launched Operation New Day to remove dangerous offenders before the holiday season and make Fort Worth safer.<\/p>\n

The charges are allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors filed 23 new cases in Fort Worth in less than two weeks under a 90-day crackdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2088,148857,116,118,117,148818,148856,14782],"class_list":["post-428467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-doj","tag-eldon-b-mahon","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-operation-new-day","tag-operation-showdown","tag-the-dallas-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}