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<blockquote data-quote="WPLG" data-source="post: 65612" data-attributes="member: 158">Eighty-five people have been arrested and millions of dollars in illicit drugs seized in a smuggling operation that used checked bags on commercial flights from California to Florida, investigators said Friday.Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference that the drugs were hidden in luggage on flights from Los Angeles to Orlando over a two-year period. One seizure involved six pieces of luggage containing nothing but drugs, he said.“They didn’t even put so much as a pair of underwear in there to hide it,” Judd told reporters.The 85 arrests involved 355 combined felonies and 93 misdemeanors in a case centered on drug trafficking in the area around Winter Haven, Florida, authorities said.The street value of about $12.8 million was estimated for the seizures of drugs including methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, fentanyl, oxycodone and Xanax. Forty-nine guns and $235,000 in cash was also confiscated.Judd said it was the largest wiretap-related investigation in Polk County history.“It’s anything other than low-level and nonviolent,” the sheriff said. “The whole time they were peddling poison to your kids.”<a href="https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2022/08/19/sheriff-85-arrests-in-california-florida-drug-flight-scheme/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WPLG, post: 65612, member: 158"] Eighty-five people have been arrested and millions of dollars in illicit drugs seized in a smuggling operation that used checked bags on commercial flights from California to Florida, investigators said Friday. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference that the drugs were hidden in luggage on flights from Los Angeles to Orlando over a two-year period. One seizure involved six pieces of luggage containing nothing but drugs, he said. “They didn’t even put so much as a pair of underwear in there to hide it,” Judd told reporters. The 85 arrests involved 355 combined felonies and 93 misdemeanors in a case centered on drug trafficking in the area around Winter Haven, Florida, authorities said. The street value of about $12.8 million was estimated for the seizures of drugs including methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, fentanyl, oxycodone and Xanax. Forty-nine guns and $235,000 in cash was also confiscated. Judd said it was the largest wiretap-related investigation in Polk County history. “It’s anything other than low-level and nonviolent,” the sheriff said. “The whole time they were peddling poison to your kids.” [url="https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2022/08/19/sheriff-85-arrests-in-california-florida-drug-flight-scheme/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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