Altogether, Waters said, the gang had about 40 members moving “major quantities of meth, cocaine, fentanyl and any other kind of drug you can think of in the Jacksonville community.”
The two-month investigation, which included DEA and ATF agents, ended with the dismantling of a criminal organization called K4T, which was responsible for repeated acts of violence in Jacksonville, including multiple homicides, and trafficking in narcotics to bankroll its operation, Waters said.During Operation Bright Lights, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office seized 1.
“We’ll never be able to quantify the lives that were saved by removing these dangerous criminals and this poison from our streets, but unquestionably, through the excellent investigative work of the men and women of the JSO and our law enforcement partners, our community’s safer and more secure because of this operation,” Waters said.
Six others were also arrested in the operation: Wallace Corbin, Raymond Cash, Gary Harris, Benjamin Wilson, Eric Massey Jr. and Unique Haynes.
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