"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
More than 1,600 pounds of meth worth about $4.5 million is off the streets after the DEA busted a meth conversion lab in Ellenwood.
According to the DEA, they also arrested three men from Mexico who are in the country illegally. The men also belong to a drug cartel, according to the DEA.
Special Agent in Charge Rob Murphy told CBS46 that the entire basement of a house in Ellenwood was being used to process methamphetamine. The floor above was being used to dry the product.
Murphy says the amount that was discovered is a “staggering” amount of methamphetamine. “This was not a mom-and-pop operation,” said Murphy.
Murphy also said that the meth wasn’t intended to stay here, but would “obviously” be shipped up and down the coast.
Several hundred candles were lit inside of the home.
“Normally what we find, especially when we’re dealing with the Mexican cartel members, there are candles paying homage to the patron saint of narcotic traffickers — Malverde — and then to Santa Muerte, the patron saint of death.”
Murphy said they do this to ward off law enforcement.
Murphy also said that such a significant amount of methamphetamine is dangerous.
“This amount of violate chemicals could have been a disaster.”
Murphy says that drug traffickers look for houses they can rent in a nice, quiet neighborhood for a number of reasons — they don’t want the attention from law enforcement and they don’t want attention from other drug dealers who may be looking to fob them.
Murphy says almost a ton of meth was seized from the house.
“It’s not easy for the cartel to get people into the metro Atlanta area that have this skill set. So, these are significant people that we were able to take off,” said Murphy.
“They’re not going to stop. They’ll keep sending people and we’re not going to stop either. We’ll keep attacking them when they send them.”
Excellent 👍 catch, keep up the good work, our tax dollars at work.
ReplyDeleteI only like this because Meth is overrated. I wouldn’t mind if seizures disproportionately affected meth and fent trafficking. Just leave my coca alone.
DeleteLOL! Only took 3 trillion $$$ of taxpayers $$$ to get to this point! Fail Army! Too funny!
Delete2:52 boy your smart, why didn't you go work for the IRS. You seem to know expenditures. I am glad the police agencies let you know outright amounts. Your one smart cookie.
DeleteIts funny that some fan boys thinks that italian mafia have power in the US!all what i see nowdays its the local black and hispanic criminals with cartel connections runs the shit!
ReplyDeleteYou got that right 👍, Chucky cheese.
DeleteThe American Mafia still runs New York and definitely traffics drugs so idk your point.
DeleteBlack salad amongst their own kind and White's distributed amongst theirs all dependent upon Latin cartels this might sound racist but most people do not trust or want to do business with blacks!!
DeleteNo criminal group runs New York. Each one has terroritories that they control
DeleteI meant runs it politically
DeleteThe goverment runs everything
Delete11:50am...Define "Runs"...and please don't say CONTROL because you would then be lying. The mob does not control drugs in NYC simple and plain
DeleteThey let the brown and black move weight and the moment they get too big they go after them and lock them up. Nobody gets big without dealing with the government somewhere in between..
DeleteCDS had the green light by the DEA to transport drugs, all mayo and chapo had to do was give names of who was making moves.
El vicentillo wanted to use that in his case and was even going to go to trial on that fact.
He instead got a sweet deal but since he snitched on himself, he also got a 1.5 or 1 billion fine.
He's already out and about..
that's just one example but there are hundreds more
Atlanta and Phoenix are super pesado.. how LA was in the 80s and 90s. Thats how Phoenix and Atlanta is right now
ReplyDeleteI wonder why there aren't daily multi-homicides of gang members like in the 80's over turf corners?
DeleteCrazy how little east palo alto was usa murder capital back then, and super peaceful now.
You been watching too much wire shows
DeletePhoenix? Idk about that one
Delete7:33 belive it or not but Phoenix is a big warehouse for drugs moving north east and west.
DeleteUp here in Canada, pot has been legalized. I don't use drugs and since leglization I have never thought of using weed nor do I know anyone who has started using weed now that it legal. Legalize it all and take the trillions$$ wasted on cops, prisons and justice system and use it for legalization and drug prevention! All these trillions $$$ going to criminal cartels would virtually stop and so would the violence associated with illicit drug trafficking and use!
ReplyDelete11:49 yesterday, meth over-rated, it's about coke. Surely you can't state this. Meth can keep you going days upon days, coke can last a few short hours and you wonder why you wasted your money on it. Coke vs. Meth is like planet earth vs. Milky Way
ReplyDeleteBut what about the people who only want to stay high while at a party or club and then go home and go to bed after..Most ppl don't want to stay high that long and stay awake for 2-3 days at a time
DeleteI have read that the demand for blow in the USA is at a low, replaced by meth and fent as the big request.
DeleteThe coke is being sent to (especially) Britain as demand is at an all time high, and profit margins are vast.
Throughout the rest of Europe it seems like Netherlands and Spain are the hotbeds with a lot of the work being arranged by the Romanian mob. (?)
Not sure if Any of this is true this but the economics and logistics of it all is very interesting.