Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made sweeping arrests across America on Wednesday, taking 250 members of a notorious Mexican drug cartel into custody -- 600 in total over the six-month operation known as "Project Python." REPUTED NJ MOBSTER SENTENCED FOR ROLE IN DRUG-TRAFFICKING RINGArrests fanned out across the U.S. in states including Illinois, Indiana, California and Wisconsin. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APPThe gang controls between one-third and two-thirds of the U.S. drug market. It is so violent that members leave piles of bodies in streets and hanging from overpasses in Mexico, and they fill the city of Guadalajara with mass graves. They once used rocket launchers to shoot down a Mexican military helicopter.

Source: Fox News March 12, 2020 02:26 UTC