ROANE COUNTY, Tenn — In 2019, two drug dealers got into a car crash outside Knoxville, Tennessee, in Roane County. While fleeing the scene, the dealers threw a case filled with meth behind a building before being caught by the police, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in court.
What followed was a series of secret wiretaps, search warrants and surveillances that would eventually lead federal investigators back to cartel leaders in Mexico.
On Thursday, Aug. 14, the United States Justice Department announced criminal charges against five high-ranking members of the United Cartels…