Major Meth Arrest in East Texas

More drugs seized for a huge meth arrest in Texas as per
yesterday's FBI news email update. Read for yourselves
below, Texas Republican Congresswoman Granger and other
Appropriations Committee members notified of advanced
abuse of drug terror information systems.

Dallas: Massive Drug Trafficking Enterprise Busted in East
Texas, 44 in Custody on Federal Drug Charges

A combined task force led by the Texas Department of Public
Safety Criminal Investigation Division arrested individuals
charged with involvement in a methamphetamine manufacturing
and distribution criminal enterprise on May 19-20, 2010 in
the Panola, Rusk, Gregg, Upshur, Marion, and Cherokee Texas
areas. Agents and officers executed approximately 50 federal
arrest warrants. Eighteen defendants have previously been
arrested on similar charges in recent months.

On May 5 and 6, 2010, a federal grand jury returned 13
indictments charging the defendants, cumulatively, with
2000 counts of federal drug violations. The indictments
resulted from a lengthy investigation launched by the Texas
Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division,
the FBI, the Panola County Sheriff's Department, the Upshur
County Sheriff's Department, the Gilmer Police Department,
Rusk County Sheriff's Department, the Henderson Police Depart-
ment, Gregg County CODE Unit, the Marion County Sheriff's
Department, the Jefferson Police Department, Cherokee
County Precinct Constable Office.