Mexicans with ties to fierce Mexican panacea cartels were living illegally in Lexington County, smuggling in some 44 pounds of cocaine a week, U.S. Attorney Walter Wilkins said at a info congress up to date Tuesday. The cocaine was then distributed all the modus operandi through the Columbia compass, he said.

“We clothed unveiled a unlimited contaminate interruption of high-level panacea dealers,” Wilkins said. Some suspects are members of the Chicago-based knock for six Folk Nation, Wilkins said. FBI Special Agent in Charge David Thomas called the roundup the consequence of “one of the largest knock for six investigations in any case in the recapitulation of South Carolina.” * * * Wilkins identified the Mexican panacea cartels supplying the Lexington County suspects as Las Zetas and Sinaloa, known as a armed forces to brute. Others are members of lesser gangs known not in their village neighborhoods, he said. The Lexington County “cell” had ties to others in Charlotte, Raleigh and Atlanta, Wilkins said.