BREAKING | “Operation Decrypted,” a four-month investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and other partnering agencies, targeted a major drug trafficking organization in Jacksonville, and it resulted in arrests across the country.
Those arrests occurred in Jacksonville, and the operation stretched to other parts of Florida, California, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, Jamaica and Mexico,. A total of 15 people were arrested in the operation, the sheriff said.
“In the past decade, our community has been ravaged by the impact of opiate addiction and related crime,” Waters said. “In recent years, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, has entered the street narcotics market. Fentanyl’s entry into our community has been devastating and deadly.”“However, in 2022, that number exploded to 470,” Waters said. “Overwhelmingly, these deaths were the result of fentanyl toxicity.
The sheriff said that every dose of fentanyl removed from the hands of drug dealer is a potential life saved. “Simply put, the people who are trafficking fentanyl and other poisons are killing members of community and staggering, heartbreaking numbers,” Waters said. Operation Decrypted, Waters said, targeted some of the largest known sources and suppliers of fentanyl in the Jacksonville area. He said the operation led to the arrest of a California drug supplier with known connections to the “New Generation” Mexican drug cartel.76 kilograms of meth with a street value of over $500,000Copyright 2023 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.
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