Source: US FBI
FBI agents prepare for an early morning operation in Little Rock, Arkansas, focused on gang members believed to be responsible for violence and drug trafficking in the region.
“Today’s operation and arrests are the culmination of a multi-year, multi-agency investigation targeting violent organizations which preyed upon Arkansas communities,” said FBI Little Rock Special Agent in Charge James Dawson. “For the past two years, FBI employees and Arkansas law enforcement partners worked relentlessly to investigate and combat the violence plaguing our state. Today, those efforts have brought much-needed relief to besieged neighborhoods across central Arkansas.”
Of the 80 defendants indicted in the three investigations, eight of those were already in custody when the operation began.
FBI and other law enforcement agents began early in the morning by searching for remaining 72 suspects; they successfully arrested 45. In addition to these arrests, authorities seized four firearms, small amounts of drugs, and $30,000 in cash.