A crack‑cocaine distribution operation that was running in Southeast D.C. near Hendley Elementary School has been dismantled after a two-year investigation, D.C. police and federal officials announced Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said 14 people were arrested this morning, with more than 500 officers involved in the execution of 30 search warrants across the District and Maryland.
“Selling cocaine near our kids isn’t just illegal; it is an attack on the most vulnerable in our society,” Pirro said. “It endangers the children, it destroys families and it fuels the violence and the chaos in the District that we have suffered for far too long.”…