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10 Indicted In Philadelphia Cocaine Trafficking Case Tied To Mexican Cartel<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ten members of an alleged drug trafficking organization were indicted, and $17 million of cocaine was seized along with multiple firearms, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blanche said the drug organization worked with a Mexican drug cartel to move more than 300 kilos of cocaine from Mexico to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

“Literal truckloads of cocaine have been seized as a result of this case and kept from flooding our city,” said U.S. Attorney David Metcalf in a statement.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Know that the investigation is ongoing and there will [be] more arrests to come. We, the FBI, and the Philadelphia Police Department are zeroing in on the drug traffickers and cartels poisoning our neighborhoods and communities.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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As Tom Gantert reports for The Epoch Times<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, identified Gregory Jones of Philadelphia and Edward Basley of Wayne, Pennsylvania, as the leaders of the drug organization.<\/p>\n

The indictment alleged that the drug organization was distributing between $5 million and $10 million worth of cocaine a month in the Philadelphia area.<\/strong> Five of the defendants were arrested on Tuesday, and the five other defendants were already in custody.<\/p>\n

Jones and Basley were both charged with conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.<\/p>\n

Jones had been in prison, but his sentence was commuted by then-President Joe Biden in April 2022.<\/strong> Jones was sentenced to 18 years with a five-year term of supervised release in 2012. Biden commuted the sentence to end in April 2023.<\/p>\n

Biden said at the time that his list of people who were pardoned and whose sentences were commuted were in prison for non-violent drug offenses. He said many of the people who had their sentences commuted would have had a lower sentence if they had been charged with the same offense in 2022 due to the First Step Act.<\/p>\n

The First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2018.<\/p>\n

The investigation involved the FBI and the Philadelphia police department, and the case was part of the Homeland Security Task Force initiative.<\/p>\n

“This investigation is another example of what is possible when local and federal law enforcement work together with a shared mission,” <\/strong><\/em>said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel in a press release.<\/p>\n

“Drug trafficking organizations operating at this scale fuel violence, destabilize neighborhoods and cause tremendous harm in our communities. I am especially proud of the Philadelphia Police Department members assigned to this task force, whose work alongside our federal partners helped bring this investigation to this point.”<\/em><\/p>\n

* * *\u00a0<\/em>Definitely not for cocaine…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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10 Indicted In Philadelphia Cocaine Trafficking Case Tied To Mexican Cartel Ten members of an alleged drug trafficking organization were indicted, and $17 million of cocaine was seized along with multiple firearms, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Wednesday. Blanche said the drug organization worked with a Mexican drug cartel to move more than… Continue reading 10 Indicted In Philadelphia Cocaine Trafficking Case Tied To Mexican Cartel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}