Federal officials announce crackdown on violent drug cartel
by Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times
Mar 12, 2020
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Last November, the cook at a Mexican seafood restaurant in Santa Ana approached a diner with a question. Would it be possible, he asked the man, to get him 200 to 300 assault rifles?
So began an alleged deal for machine guns that Nicola Hanna, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, traced Wednesday to the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or Jalisco New Generation, a Mexican drug trafficking organization known to few people in the United States, but one Hanna called "one of the most significant transnational criminal threats we face today."
Twenty-seven people were
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