Video above: An exclusive look at ‘Operation Around the Way’
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — News 5’s Clancy Callahan gives you an exclusive inside look at a drug operation that led Mobile Police to confiscate nearly half a million dollars in drugs, arrest 42 people, seize 15 guns and six vehicles.
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We rode along with Capt. Matt James from the Mobile Police Department for the last two days of the narcotics operation aimed at taking drugs and suspected dealers off the streets.
“We’ve been able to get marijuana, crack cocaine, cocaine and other drugs off the streets as a result of this operation,” James said.
James told us Operation “Around the Way” took officers around the city to conduct a much larger operation than normal.
“We took the four major precincts and picked up a hotspot, a known drug area in each precinct, and targeted dealers that were targeting those areas,” he said…