Drug ring bust nets 31 arrests
Crime: 14-month investigation involved ICE, DEA and 14 state and local law enforcement agencies
STACEY MULICK
Published: 07/03/09 12:05 am
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Federal, state and local law enforcement officials have busted a large drug trafficking organization that was bringing methamphetamine and cocaine into Washington from Mexico and operating in parts of Pierce County.

It was the second trafficking organization dismantled in the Puget Sound region by federal and local authorities in less than two years.

Law enforcement authorities have focused increasingly on the cartels as state laws clamped down on the ability of meth users to cook batches of the drug.

“Unfortunately none of those controls are in Mexico,â€