FLORIDA – Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that four people were arrested on July 11 in an interstate cocaine trafficking conspiracy that transported about 60 kilograms of cocaine from El Paso, Texas, into the Tampa Bay area.
“This operation dismantled a dangerous cartel pipeline flooding Florida communities with cocaine,” Uthmeier said. “Thanks to the outstanding work of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, FDLE, and our Statewide Prosecutors, we have removed 60 kilograms of poison from our streets and are holding these traffickers fully accountable.”
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office detectives, working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement through the State Assistance for Fentanyl Eradication (SAFE) program, conducted surveillance of a drug trafficking organization and identified a pattern of monthly shipments involving white Freightliner semi‑trucks, officials said…