According to federal officials, a six-month operation looking to fight alleged gang activity and apprehend violent offenders in Texas resulted in more than 350 arrests and $4 million seized.
Operation Triple Beam, the investigation, ended with the U.S. Marshal Service making 351 arrests, which included 92 alleged gang members, 86 guns confiscated, $4,360,968, and 32 kilos of illicit drugs, the U.S. Marshal Service said.
The Gulf Coast Violent Offender Task Force led the probe while working with several federal and state agencies from April 7 to Sept. 30.
Three counties, Nueces, Aransas, and San Patricio, were the focus of the investigation on street and prison gangs, according to the U.S. Marshal Service.
Agencies involved in the investigation included the Corpus Christi Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and other entities, authorities said.
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T. Michael O’Connor, the U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Texas, shared in a statement on Monday the stance of the agency.
“As violent crime and gang violence continue to rise and plague our cities and counties, those of us in the law enforcement community must be ready and willing to engage,” O’Connor said in the statement.
He continued saying that the investigation was an attempt “to foster safer communities by providing immediate relief from gang-related violence by investigating and arresting fugitive gang members and the criminal organizations responsible for committing violent crimes.”
O’Connor shared that he is “extremely proud” of what their law enforcement partners did over the last several months in Operation Triple Beam.
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