MIAMI – Eighty-five people have been arrested and hundreds of thousands of bucks in illicit prescription drugs seized in a smuggling operation that employed checked baggage on industrial flights from California to Florida.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd stated at a news convention on Friday that the medications had been hidden in baggage on flights from Los Angeles to Orlando around a two-calendar year time period. A person seizure associated 6 pieces of luggage made up of very little but medicines, he explained.
“They failed to even set so a great deal as a pair of underwear in there to conceal it,” Judd explained to reporters.
The 85 arrests involved 355 combined felonies and 93 misdemeanors in a case centered on drug trafficking in the region around Winter season Haven.
Avenue worth of about $12.8 million was approximated for the seizures of drugs which includes methamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis, fentanyl, oxycodone and Xanax. Forty-9 guns and $235,000 in cash was also confiscated.
Judd explained it was the major wiretap-similar investigation in Polk County heritage.
“It is nearly anything other than minimal-amount and nonviolent,” the sheriff reported. “The total time they have been peddling poison to your youngsters.”
