More than 3,000 law enforcement officers were deployed across 16 states on Wednesday in a string of drugs raids that brought in 429 suspects. Attorney General Eric Holder said they dealt a “very significant blow” to the cartels shuttling drugs, cash and weapons across the Mexican border. “This interagency cross-border operation has been our most extensive, and most successful, law enforcement effort to date targeting these deadly cartels,” Holder said. The raids, which were the culmination of a 22-month operation, resulted in the seizure of $5.8 million in cash, 2,951 pounds of marijuana, 247 pounds of cocaine, 17 pounds of methamphetamine, 141 weapons and 85 vehicles. “Has drug trafficking come to an end? Of course not,” said John Morton, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “But it just got harder and there are a lot of people this morning who wish they had a made a better career choice in life.”
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