DEA: Mexican Gangs ‘Remain Greatest Criminal Drug Threat to the United States’

“Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) remain the greatest criminal drug threat to the United States; no other group can challenge them in the near term,” says the 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment released on Wednesday by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“These Mexican poly-drug organizations traffic heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana throughout the United States, using established transportation routes and distribution networks,” the report says.

The Mexican TCOs serve primarily as wholesale suppliers, and they work with thousands of local, U.S.-based gangs to distribute the drugs at the retail level.

And these Mexican criminal enterprises may be coming to a neighborhood near you:

“Law enforcement reporting indicates some Mexican trafficking organizations within the United States are relocating from major metropolitan areas to establish bases of operation in suburban or rural areas,” the DEA said. (Read more from “DEA: Mexican Gangs ‘Remain Greatest Criminal Drug Threat to the United States'” HERE)

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