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Drug trafficking operation dismantled with more than 100 arrests, $365k seized in narcotics

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (WPHL) — Police have arrested more than 100 people and seized $365,000 worth of narcotics as a result of “Operation Clean Sweep,” law enforcement officials announced.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday was joined by Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn, and Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer during a press conference Monday morning.

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The two-phase operation, conducted in September and October, also seized 12 illegal firearms, along with fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, oxycodone, psilocybin mushrooms, and other narcotics.

Attorney General Sunday said the goal was to target and intercept known drug trafficking activity in Philadelphia, primarily in Kensington. According to Sunday, narcotics would flow out of the city and into Bucks, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties.

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“The Operation Clean Sweep collaboration will make communities safer with arrests of dozens of drug traffickers and seizures of firearms and deadly poisons that are not contained by municipal borders,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said. “I am proud of my staff and our partners who employed sophisticated investigative tactics to close major trafficking pipelines between Philadelphia and the surrounding counties.”

Many law enforcement agencies, including the Montgomery County Detective Bureau, Bucks County Detective Bureau, Delaware County Detective Bureau, Pennsylvania State Police, Philadelphia Police Department, and other municipal police departments, collaborated in the operation.

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