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Arrests in Nevada: DEA Announces Strike Against Mexican Drug Cartels

The Drug Enforcement Agency has announced the largest single U.S. strike against Mexican drug cartels. Project Coronado resulted in 1,186 arrests and huge drug and money seizures against one of the world's most violent drug gangs.

Six warrants were served in Nevada resulting in several arrests in both northern and southern Nevada. Mario Rivera-Gonzales, Gerardo Vergara-Nunez, Roque Edwin Gonzalez-Najera and Jose Diaz-Gutierrez were all arrested and charged in Reno.

Investigators served a search warrant on a storage unit, two houses and one vehicle in the Reno area. Approximately three pounds of methamphetamine was seized. 

Over the past two days, 303 individuals in 19 states were arrested in a series of takedowns through coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement. More than 3,000 agents and officers operated across the United States to make the arrests during the takedown.

Sixty-two kilograms of cocaine, 729 pounds of methamphetamine, 967 pounds of marijuana, 144 weapons, 109 vehicles, and two clandestine drug labs were also seized.