FAIRVIEW: Erie Station Border Patrol Agents participated in Operation Crazy Bull, targeting drug traffickers in northwest Pennsylvania and other states. The effort included federal and state agencies, result of a two-year investigation initiated by Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Border Patrol agents assisted in the raids of local businesses and private homes of several suspected members of drug trafficking organizations with ties to a Mexican drug cartel. A total of 19 locations including residences, restaurants, auto shops, and storage facilities were searched and 15 persons were arrested.
“This operation was the successful capstone of a two-year investigation of a transnational criminal organization based in Erie, Pa.,” said Acting Patrol Agent in Charge Joseph Kruszynski. Keeping America safe depends on disrupting and dismantling criminal organizations engaged in drug trafficking activities across our international borders−CBP officers and agents fight drug traffickers every day.
