A major, multi-county drug trafficking operation has been dismantled following a successful six-month investigation nicknamed “Operation Slow N Go,” Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday.
The coordinated effort resulted in five arrests, the seizure of a significant cache of narcotics—including deadly fentanyl and xylazine—and multiple firearms, delivering a powerful blow to the illegal drug trade across South Florida and into Virginia.
The ring, which spanned across seven Florida counties and into Suffolk County, Virginia, was engaged in the large-scale trafficking of a dangerous cocktail of substances, including cocaine, fentanyl, xylazine, psilocybin, marijuana, methamphetamine, testosterone, alprazolam, and other pharmaceutical pills.
Drug and Weapon Haul
Investigators seized 2,262 grams of narcotics, 500 pharmaceutical pills, six handguns, and several automatic rifles. The investigation also uncovered that two of the traffickers were brazenly using a local Palm Beach County flea market as a front to distribute drugs throughout South Florida…