The US Drug Enforcement Administration recovered more than 2,200 pounds of methamphetamine earlier this month in Southern California, the agency’s biggest ever domestic seizure of the drug, authorities said Wednesday.
The agency executed the bust on Oct. 2 at stash houses in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, with ties to the Sinaloa cartel, the DEA said in an announcement.
“The biggest DEA domestic seizure of methamphetamine in history is a noteworthy hit to the cartels, however more significantly it is a massive triumph for networks all through Southern California and the United States who have needed to deal with the torrent of methamphetamine coming into their neighborhoods,” DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea said at a Wednesday press conference.
Along with 2,224 pounds of meth, the DEA also seized 893 pounds of cocaine and 13 pounds of heroin.
The DEA’s bust was just one of two massive meth seizures by federal authorities in October.
The US Customers and Border Protection on Oct. 9 recovered 3,014 pounds of the drug from a truck crossing from Mexico into the United States at San Diego’s Otay Mesa.
