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According to authorities, the supplies came from the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels, whom President Donald Trump recently named international terrorist organizations.
Bondi stressed the lethal consequences the drugs could have had if they had made it to the streets, and at least eleven suspects have been arrested in relation to the intercepted drug shipments.
In his remarks about the bust’s wider ramifications and the FBI’s future strategy, Director Kash Patel cautioned that the days of unregulated cartel activity in the US are ending.
Drug cartels would “no longer be free to roam across our country,” according to Patel.
