St. Petersburg police chief discusses multi-agency investigation into 'violent' drug ring

According to the police department, the ring is responsible for millions of dollars in drug trafficking in the Tampa Bay area.

[cherylvelasquez]

Great job!! Thank you to all who are serving this community!! We can only hope other states will follow suit and stop these drug rings everywhere!!

[AJDZK]

Chief your uniform is squared away. It's good to see good leaders supporting thier agencies and it's officers. Makes the area a much better place. Good work.

[jag]

Florida will never be for defunding the police… thank you 🙏 lord - respect for 👮‍♀️

[breachperplex]

Congrats police you stopped 0 drugs another 10 loads got through your war on drugs never worked and has failed so this is laughable

[dougholman]

The police arrest Arrest the drug rings fine them and let the trafficking go on !!

[hilariocolom]

Standard police tactics, spending millions of dollars to go after weed, then talk about the few grams of hard drugs and a few guns they got out of this investigation. Oh yeah and I love the Jim Crowe style of associating weed with violence. But if it's sold by state approved dispensaries than it becomes something medicinal.

[GerardoIantosca]

It comes from California imagine the mark up.

[hilariocolom]

My mom a 65 year old woman undergoing chemotherapy was arrested for possession of 2 grams of marijuana on her way home from her 10 hour shift. I wanted her to fight it so bad but they offered her a sweet $700 fine and she took it just to be done with the real criminals

[deesatch]

I live in st pete and can buy any drug i want at anytime lol so what did this operation Accomplish other than a press conference?

[Krise]

Legalize recreational marijuana, tax marijuana sales to benefit Florida educational system.

[gulayguthre]

And a damn shame some judge will let those scumbags walk free and create crime again