DEA wraps up year-long efforts identifying Mexican drug cartels’ connection to towns across the USA

The US Drug Enforcement Administration has wrapped up a year long operation that identified the connections between Mexican drug cartels and communities across the nation.

Emily Murray with the DEA Regional Office in Omaha says it was called “Operation Last Mile.”

Murray says the drugs are landing everywhere.

In the past year, Murray says investigators from the Omaha office have directly linked 26 cases to the cartels…. and she expects that number to rise.

Murray says they are also seeing cartels increasing their use of social media to to move their drugs.

(Story provided courtesy of news partner WNAX.)