Dallas Adult Entertainment: Crackdown against drug cartel yields 300 U.S. arrests in 2 days
… We are fighting an organization whose brutal violence is driven by so-called divine justice,” Leonhart said. “Accordingly, La Familia’s narco-banner declared that they don’t kill for money and they don’t kill innocent people. However, their delivery of that message was accompanied by five severed heads rolled onto a dance floor in Uruapan, Mexico.”
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The indictments unsealed Thursday provided a rare look inside a highly disciplined and secretive organization that uses violence to support its narcotics trafficking business _ including numerous murders, kidnappings and assaults, federal authorities said. It also has diversified into counterfeiting, extortion, prostitution and armed robbery. Most of those arrested in the United States were believed to be foot-soldiers or associates of the organization, but some of them had direct ties back to La Familia leadership in Michoacan, authorities said.