The FBI says that it has dismantled a drug trafficking ring and removed a “significant” amount of drugs from US streets after a tractor trailer was seized as part of an extensive investigation.
The Durham County Sheriff’s Office announced the bust on Monday, October 19th. Ten defendants have already been prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina.
According to CBS 17, the tractor trailer discovered during the investigation was busted in New Mexico with 54 pounds of cocaine and five and a half pounds of fentanyl. Ten defendants have been sentenced to federal prison for a total of 61 years and six months collectively…