Federal and local agents say they pulled about 10 kilograms of cocaine out of New York City's drug pipeline on Wednesday, arresting one person in a coordinated operation that officials are pitching as another quiet win in an ongoing effort to choke off wholesale supply.
The 32-year-old once served as a background figure in the Gucci Gang, one of Dublin's most prolific organised crime collectives. The ever-changing and often fatal landscape of gangland activity meant that Salmon eventually emerged as the unlikely leader of that group - a leader who built a reputation for violent intimidation in the pursuit of drug debt.
The DEA is in Bolivia, he said. Just as the DEA is now present, we also have cooperation from European intelligence and police bodies. Oviedo explained that the initial focus of the law enforcement efforts would be to tighten border surveillance and dismantle trafficking networks.
"There's no doubt that America's adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States in part because they want to kill Americans. If this were a war, that would be one of the worst wars. I believe they killed over the last five or six years, per year, 200-to-300,000 people. You hear about a 100,000, which is a lot of people, but the number is much higher than that. That's been proven."
The defendants' convictions and sentences demonstrate our resolve to hold accountable those who flood the streets of Brooklyn with deadly weapons and drugs, feeding the cycles of gun violence and substance abuse.
