One seizure involved six pieces of luggage checked onto commercial flights that contained nothing but drugs. “They didn't even put so much as a pair of underwear in there to hide it,” Florida's Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Millions of dollars in illicit drugs were seized from the operation, which used checked bags on commercial flights to move the drugs from coast to coast.
The 85 arrests involved 355 combined felonies and 93 misdemeanors in a case centered on drug trafficking in the area around Winter Haven, Florida. Street value of about $12.8 million was estimated for the seizures of drugs including methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, fentanyl, oxycodone and Xanax. 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.that the drugs were hidden in luggage on flights from Los Angeles to Orlando over a two-year period. One seizure involved six piece of luggage containing nothing but drugs, he said.Stay informed about local news and weather in Southern California.
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