For Immediate Release
Contact:
August 25, 2010 USMS Domestic Investigations Branch
Chief Inspector Dan Wertheimer, (202) 520-9846;
USMS Headquarters Public Affairs, (202) 307-9065;
DUSM Chad Hunt (918) 519-9081

Operation Targets Gang Violence

More than 160 Arrested During Multi-Agency Gang-Violence Reduction Law Enforcement Operation

WASHINGTON – Carroll Allbery, Acting United States Marshal for the Northern District of Oklahoma, joined by Chief Chuck Jordan of the Tulsa Police Department, today announced the culmination of a strategic gang enforcement operation that removed 163 violent gang members and gang member associates from the streets of the Tulsa metropolitan area.

Dubbed Operation Triple Beam, the goal of the operation was to combat the crime and violence associated with gang activity in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area. The two-week operation represents the commitment of law enforcement to reduce violent crime through multi-agency gang enforcement operations.

More than 40 law enforcement officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, the Tulsa Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and other federal, state, and local agencies combined resources that served as a force-multiplier to bring the most violent gang members to justice and remove deadly guns and drugs from the streets of Tulsa.

“This operation is a great example of multiple law enforcement agencies working together to reduce violent crime,â€