Federal authorities announce findings in Middle Tennessee cartel drug trafficking operation

Twenty-four individuals have been indicted in an investigation into Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficking operations in Middle Tennessee and California, federal authorities announced at a press conference in Nashville on Wednesday, Oct. 28.

Sixteen people have been taken into custody and seven were recently arrested in areas such as Nashville, Mt. Juliet, Cookeville and Stockton, Calif. Officials said that one individual remains at large.

According to officials, two leaders, Humberto Morales and Jose Martin Perez, allegedly continued to direct operations while incarcerated in Tennessee state prisons…

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