Taco trucks used as part of South Carolina drug trafficking operation

Alleged drug traffickers in South Carolina used taco vans to move kilos of meth, cocaine and heroin, state prosecutors mentioned Wednesday.

The vans run by Mexican restaurant Los Primos have been used as a regional hub for a serious drug-dealing operation linked to Mexican cartels, in response to the South Carolina Lawyer Basic’s Workplace.  

Thirty-four defendants are dealing with a mixed 124 costs linked to the most important investigation that the AG’s workplace dubbed “Los Banditos.”

“It was a Mexican restaurant identical to some other,” legal professional Creighton Waters, of the AG’s workplace mentioned, in response to the Put up and Courier.

“It’s simply that there was extra you might get in your Styrofoam clamshells than simply burritos and tacos.”

The restaurant house owners allegedly executed the drug-running operation from each eating places and vans in Greenville County.

Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins referred to as it a “very giant scale organized drug operation.”

“Whereas this group has ties from Mexico to quite a few cities in america, its drug trafficking efforts and areas in Greenville County have been persevering with to pump poison instantly into our communities,” Wilkins mentioned in a press release.

“This can be a nice win for the residents of Greenville County and these quite a few arrests can have a direct and direct impression upon the residents of Greenville County and neighboring Counties.”

Authorities seized 11 kilos of meth, 1.3 kilos of cocaine, about $63,000 in money and greater than 20 firearms.

The investigation indicated the conspiracy traditionally accounted for a couple of ton of meth, 220 kilos of cocaine and greater than 4 kilos of heroin trafficked in South Carolina, in response to prosecutors.

Info gathered by a South Carolina grand jury led to the seizure throughout state strains in Georgia of 200 kilos of meth, 7.7 kilos of cocaine, seven kilos of heroin, greater than 180 kilos of marijuana, 900 Xanax drugs and a number of other firearms present in a number of Atlanta flats and stash homes.

South Carolina AG Alan Wilson mentioned his workplace is dedicated to “struggle the corrosive impact drug trafficking has on our communities.”