“Today, the Justice Department has taken numerous vast enforcement moves to disrupt big-scale unlawful gun and drug trafficking operations,” stated Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “I am thankful to all the Department’s agents, prosecutors, and team of workers concerned in those moves, in addition to to our nation and nearby partners, for his or her tireless paintings. The moves taken nowadays constitute the paintings this is being executed through this Department each unmarried day to disrupt violent crime, fight gun violence, and get lethal fentanyl out of our communities.”

Earlier nowadays, on the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, a seven-matter indictment became unsealed charging David Mccann, Tajhai Jones, Raymond Minaya, and Calvin Tabron with allegedly conspiring to illegally site visitors extra than 50 firearms. Mccann and Minaya also are charged with conspiracy to distribute and own with cause to distribute cocaine base; Mccann is moreover charged with conspiracy to distribute and own with cause to distribute fentanyl. Mccann, Jones, Minaya, and Tabron have been arrested this morning. Mccann and Minaya are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon earlier than United States Magistrate Judge Taryn A. Merkl. Jones and Tabron could be arraigned in Virginia.

This prosecution is the primary in New York, and a few of the first withinside the country, to price the gun trafficking provisions of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which Congress and the President enacted in June 2022. The Act is the primary federal statute specially designed to goal gun trafficking. Among different provisions, it creates a standalone firearm trafficking conspiracy offense, which the authorities has charged in this situation to maintain responsible individuals who conspire to illegally promote firearms. The Act presents for sentences of up to fifteen years’ imprisonment.

In the Northern District of West Virginia nowadays, Baltimore-primarily based totally drug trafficking companies that provided big quantities of fentanyl to West Virginia and brought on as a minimum deaths were dismantled through separate federal indictments that have been unsealed nowadays.

Thirty-4 humans from Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia have been indicted on prices associated with the sale of fentanyl, heroin, and different pills in Hampshire County and Mineral County. The pills dispensed caused a spike in overdoses withinside the region, each deadly and non-deadly. Much of the fentanyl had excessive stages of purity and had a pink tint to differentiate it from pills bought through competitors.

In the primary indictment, Kentrel Anthony Rollins, aka T-Rock, 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, is said to be the chief of a fentanyl distribution operation in Hampshire County and some place else from January 2020 to October 2021. Court files display that further to the sale of pills, there has been firearms trafficking and the buying and selling of weapons for pills. Many of the firearms have been received through a straw customer on behalf of the organization. 12 humans are charged on this matter, which additionally consists of the alleged trafficking of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine.

In the second one indictment, Sean Jarred Davis, 31, additionally of Baltimore, is said to be the chief of a conspiracy to distribute extra than forty grams of fentanyl, in addition to heroin, in Hampshire County and some place else from February 2021 to January 2023. A overall of twenty-two people are charged withinside the case.

And withinside the Southern District of Georgia nowadays, seventy six defendants are named in a newly unsealed federal indictment describing a large drug trafficking research tied to the Ghost Face Gangsters crook road gang that consists of allegations of more than one deaths from unlawful drug overdoses.

As introduced nowadays at a multi-corporation information convention held at Glynn County Police Department Headquarters in Brunswick, Georgia, the indictment in USA v. Alvarez et. al, dubbed Operation Ghost Busted, prices seventy six defendants with involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy that dispensed big quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin, and alprazolam withinside the more Glynn County area. The number one conspiracy price withinside the indictment includes a obligatory minimal sentence of 10 years in jail, as much as life, along side huge economic consequences and a duration of supervised launch following any jail term.