30 Arrested in Joint Operation in Puerto Rico
Defendants had Seized a Community Park to Sell Drugs

DEA Special Agent in Charge Javier F Peña and PRPD Superintendent Jose Figueroa are briefed on the progress of the operation by DEA supervisors.

MAY 08 - SAN JUAN, P.R. – On May 5 , 2009, a federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a seven-count indictment, charging 55 defendants with federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses. This morning, strike force agents arrested 30 members of the drug trafficking organization, which had been established since 2006 at the Villa Margarita Ward and Los Claveles Housing Project. The arrest warrants were executed by more than 250 federal and commonwealth agents in an enforcement operation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

The investigation was part of the joint efforts of the Carolina Strike Force Team led by Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, and coordinated by SAUSA Guillermo Gil-Bonar; working in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration, led by Special Agent in Charge, Javier Peña; and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice and its Secretary of Justice, Antonio Sagardía.

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