DEA Operations Dismantle Two Major Heroin Trafficking Rings
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: November 19, 2010
Diana Apodaca
915-832-6074
DEA Operations Dismantle Two Major Heroin Trafficking Organizations
NOV 19 -- On November 17, 2010, federal, state and local law enforcement officers arrested ten Mexican nationals and executed a series of search warrants in the Albuquerque metropolitan area in connection with two Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigations targeting two major heroin trafficking organizations. More than twenty pounds of heroin were seized during yesterday’s enforcement action, one of the largest heroin seizures in New Mexico.
The DEA investigations, code-named “Operation Brown Stoneâ€