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Protesters Disrupt Major Drug Bust in Tucson, Mistaking It for Immigration Action
- On Wednesday night in Tucson, authorities conducted a major drug bust seizing millions of fentanyl pills, cocaine, meth, and firearms while arresting a suspected cartel member.
- The operation targeted a criminal drug smuggler and former cartel member with an outstanding warrant, but protesters mistakenly believed it was an ICE immigration raid and gathered at the scene.
- Nearly 100 protesters blocked law enforcement actions, including the removal of evidence, despite police explaining the investigation was narcotics-related and not an immigration enforcement.
- Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple criticized the protesters for disrupting a significant drug bust that removed 5 million fentanyl pills from the community, while also affirming his commitment to respecting constitutional rights and cautioning that the demonstrations were testing legal boundaries.
- The disruption highlighted challenges for law enforcement managing confused protests during drug raids and suggests authorities will continue prosecuting offenders to maintain community safety.
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Sheriff: Tucson protestors disrupt drug bust; cartel member caught
An anti-ICE protest on Tucson's southside escalated into violence Wednesday night, resulting in several businesses being vandalized and Tucson police eventually declaring the gathering an unlawful assembly.
Massive drug bust impeded by Arizona protesters ‘thinking it was an ICE raid,’ sheriff says: ‘Idiots’
Anti-ICE protesters tried to interrupt a raid in Arizona -- even though it was on a suspected cartel member found with a huge stockpile of drugs and guns, according to a sheriff blasting them as "idiots."
Clueless: Protesters Target Drug Bust, Thinking It's an ICE Raid
‘Idiots’: Massive Drug Bust Impeded By Anti-ICE Protesters, Sheriff Says
Anti-ICE protesters got in the way of a drug bust targeting a former cartel member in Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday night, according to Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple.Teeple told local outlet 13 News on Thursday that a group of protesters stood between federal and local law enforcement officers and a home where over 120 pounds of fentanyl, 20 pounds of meth, and 30 pounds of cocaine were seized. The suspect, an illegal immigrant and former car…
Attempted arrest made in Nutbush was not immigration-related, says SCSO
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Shelby County Sheriff's Office denies a social media account claim that an attempted arrest Thursday in Nutbush was related to immigration. "There is misinformation circulating that this incident was related to an immigration raid or immigration arrest. That is not true. This was strictly an effort to serve an arrest warrant related to a domestic aggravated assault case," according to SCSO in a release. Screenshot of social…
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