Feds Team Up, Finally Targeting Actual Criminals for Illegal Guns, Drugs, Trafficking
Operation Rock Water, a multiagency anti-trafficking investigation led by the FBI and DEA, scored another victory in Texas on Thursday arresting twenty-one suspects with El Paso gang ties in a local, state, and federal effort. The individuals apprehended are associated with a gang known as Chuco Tango, a group steeped in criminal activity including the trafficking of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and heroin, as well as human smuggling, kidnapping, and possession of machine gun conversion devices known as “switches.”
“The individuals arrested today have been indicted here in El Paso, the Western District and in El Paso County, and are charged with a combination of statutes related to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl,” said U.S.