Operation Xcellerator [sic.]

In a 21 month operation that apparently spanned from coast to coast and involved Canada and Mexico, the DEA, likely coordinating with a multitude of other state and federal agencies, arrested over 750 people on narcotics charges, and seized more than 23 tons of narcotics and over $59 million dollars.
The arrested are alleged to be Sinaloa Cartel Members.
The arrests were announced on February 25, 2009 by DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart
The Sinaloa Cartel is responsible for bringing multi-ton quantities of narcotics, including cocaine and marijuana, from Mexico into the United States through an enterprise of distribution cells in the United States and Canada. Individuals indicted in the cases are charged with a variety of crimes, including: engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise by violating various felony provisions of the Controlled Substances Act; conspiracy to import controlled substances; money laundering; and possession of an unregistered firearm. More than 12,000 kilograms of cocaine, more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana, more than 1,200 pounds of methamphetamine, more than 8 kilograms of heroin, approximately 1.3 million pills of Ecstasy, more than $6.5 million in other assets, 149 vehicles, 3 aircraft, 3 maritime vessels and 169 weapons were seized.
The full article can be viewed at:

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/2009/la022509.html