News conference: Operation Rooske, A Family Affair (June 28, 2024)

Sheriff Grady Judd is giving details about a multi-agency fentanyl drug trafficking investigation. The Polk County Sheriff's Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the Florida Attorney General's Office of Statewide Prosecution, Ashley Moody, Attorney General, coordinated the investigation and dismantling of a Lakeland-based fentanyl drug trafficking organization (DTO).
"Operation Rooske, A Family Affair," resulted in the arrest of 64 people, multiple search warrants, the shutdown of 2 businesses that were being used to launder drug proceeds, the seizure of multiple weapons, drugs, and DTO assets, and multiple racketeering charges on the principal DTO leadership.
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