“U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Washington”
An 18-month federal investigation has led to the indictment of nine people — some allegedly connected to the Knoccout Crips street gang in Tacoma, Wash. — for their roles in a large-scale fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Arizona to Washington and as far as Maryland.
Law enforcement executed 13 search warrants and made 13 arrests this week, seizing large quantities of narcotics, firearms, and cash,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington said Thursday.
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller, the multi-agency operation targeted a sophisticated drug ring that used women couriers to transport fentanyl in checked luggage from Phoenix to airports in Seattle and Baltimore. The investigation, which included a two-month wiretap, was led by the FBIs South Sound Safe Streets Gang Task Force…