DEA Arrests 700 US-Based Mexican Drug Cartel Members

Acting DEA Administrator Uttam Dhillon, flanked by DEA and DOJ officials, speaks to media about an operation against a Mexican cartel at the Justice Department in Washington on March 11, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—In a synchronized nationwide raid on the early morning of March 11, more than 250 members of Mexico’s Cartel de Jalisco Nuevo Generacion (CJNG) were swept up by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

A further 450 had already been arrested over the past six months, in what the DEA has dubbed “Project Python.” Most are charged with federal drug trafficking crimes.