On July 14, 2011 it was announced that the state's largest amount of methamphetamine was taken by police in Las Vegas. Ten Mexican illegal immigrants were arrested because they trafficked drugs. Police seized 212 pounds of methamphetamine that cost about $5.7 million.
What’s more, it was confiscated $280,000 in cash, six guns and nine special vehicles for drug transporting. Law sanction officers said that the record bust as a huge number to Las Vegas' unlawful underground that would be felt by each player, as well as drug bosses, insignificant dealers and users who want to earn on the street. The suddenly acquiesced 4 pounds of heroin and 208 pounds of methamphetamine in changing stages of processing from its liquid form to the crystal-like pieces that drug seller offer on the street in tiny quantities for use.
Police claimed that more and more people starts selling drugs and in last week's raid 11 men and women were arrested but they haven’t been recognized and police don’t know how long these immigrants have lived in the USA and how they came to the USA.
The study started in January and police officers claimed that they want to find out if the operation had ties to Mexico's atrocious drug groups. As for drugs they were made in Mexico and illegally moved through the USA border.
To catch criminals, police from Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Boulder City work together with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the Nevada Highway Patrol nowadays.
As for the illegal immigrants, if they are finally were guilty, they maybe will be put into the prison in the USA and then deported to Mexico.