Sheriff Chad Chronister, joined by Florida's Attorney General Ashley Moody and Assistant Special Agent in charge of the DEA Tampa Mike Ferguson, announced the results of a three-month-long operation aimed at disrupting and dismantling a violent gang's distribution of deadly narcotics in Hillsborough County, a Central Florida HIDTA initiative. Operation Checkmate resulted in the arrest of 21 people, including two top gang leaders. Detectives seized drugs with a combined street value of almost a million dollars and other valuable items purchased with illicit cash.
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