Homeland Security officials are announcing 144 arrests from a 68-day operation they’re calling “Loaded Dice.”
“This was a strategic investigative initiative focused on disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal organizations, gangs and other criminal networks involved in illicit firearms and narcotics trafficking, as well as bulk cash smuggling, and associated violent crime in the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area,” officials said.
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[FULL BRIEFING] Homeland Security Task Force announces 144 arrests from operation ‘Loaded Dice’
The operation also led to the seizure of at least $100 million, 290 illegal firearms and en estimated 1,124 kilograms of narcotics, said Erin Burke, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles…