BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The FBI is cracking down on crime in Western New York this summer and across the country, working to address an uptick in violence.
Operation Summer Heat, the FBI’s nationwide effort to combat crime, is now underway, and it started with an arrest from the FBI Safe Streets Task Force involving 13 individuals who are charged in two separate indictments.
“Earlier this week, 13 defendants were charged with federal narcotics violations based upon their filling our communities with cocaine, fentanyl, crack cocaine and marijuana,” Michael DiGiacomo, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, said…