DEA in Atlanta using new lab for federal drug seizures in fight against cartel
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Atlanta, GA. – The Drug Application Administration in Atlanta (DAA) has a new vehicle in Mexico’s struggle against one of the most famous cartels.
The DEA Atlanta field section opened a new laboratory in May to commit all the seizure of all federal drugs in Georgia. Atlanta leading Dea agent, the laboratory violent “Cartel Jalisco new generation (CJNG)” after making the agents more efficient, he said.
In the past, the DEA in Atlanta would call on chemists from laboratories in other cities to test drugs, which was a process that lasts for a few days to complete. Now that the laboratory is at home, the agency can test drugs within a few minutes.
“Someone can take a day or two to come out,” Dea Auditor Judicial Chemist Chad Chumbey said. “We can answer and help immediately.”
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Dea Atlanta is the first field section with a laboratory. (FOX News)
Federal prosecutors, what the drug is and how much of an agent seized the accusations, as they determine, tartan dea chemists play a vital role in this process.
In September, Dea in Atlanta seized more than 1,000 pounds in an operation targeting CJNG. After the busts, agents sent drugs to the laboratory for test.
“We will take a statistical sampling to give a general part of the population to include the matter.” He said.
The Drug Application Administration in Atlanta seized more than 1000 pounds of violent “Cartel Jalisco new generation”. (FOX News)
The agents arrested five illegal immigrants, which they said they said they were distributed to Methi black garbage bags. Robert Murphy, a special agent responsible for the DEA Atlanta Field Department, said that all suspects are Mexican citizens with ties with CJNG.
“This was 700 pounds, in a apartment with two children under ten years of age.” He said. “They do this with design. He wants to confuse cartels.”
Murphy estimated that the street value of Methin was at least $ 4 million. He said the suspects were responsible for taking this money back.
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Murphy, “preferred drugs money. Poison, people, the lives they destroy or do not care about anything about the misery they are dealing with. This does not bother them a little.” He said.
Dea’s private agent responsible for the Atlanta Field Department estimates that a recent seizure is more than $ 4 million. (FOX News)
CJNG has risen to power since the arrest of more than one senior members of the rival Sinaloa cartel.
In 2023, El Chapo’s son Ovidio Guzmán López was arrested in Mexico. The following year, Ismael, another son of El Chapo, was arrested in Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán Lopez, El Paso, Texas.
“All war and fights in Mexico – this is about something. This is about something. He said. “CJNG has risen to power and we want to make sure that our efforts are not very strong.”
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The operation is part of Dea’s effort to enter CJNG throughout the country.
On Monday, Dea agents stopped more than 175 kilos of cocaine, connected to the southern border to the United States. The next day, the agents in Houston seized more than 28 kilos of cocaine and $ 470,000 from suspected CJNG members.
“Every seizure is important. Every seizure is important. We target the entire network from facilitates, manufacturers, carriers, money laundering – everyone we encounter about CJNG is chasing.”
