Federal agents and local police struck a significant blow against cartel-driven drug and gun trafficking in the Pacific Northwest late last month, arresting a Mexican national tied to the Sinaloa Cartel. The teams seized more than 100,000 fentanyl pills, 25 kilos of fentanyl powder, and 34 firearms in a sweeping multi-agency raid led by the DEA and Seattle Police—with tactical support from Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC unit.
Border Patrol agents assisted in the execution of a search warrant tied to a law enforcement operation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Seattle Police Department that resulted in the arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel member and the seizure of 25 kilos of fentanyl and 90,000 fentanyl tablets. Authorities arrested nine others in the late October law enforcement operation.
The operation took place on October 28 and led to ten arrests that are related to three significant and interrelated drug and gun trafficking conspiracies, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. The operation resulting in the seizure of fentanyl, more than two dozen firearms, and those suspected of coordinating the trafficking of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and weapons was the culmination of a year-long investigation by law enforcement officers in the Seattle area…