144 SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOLLOWING LAS VEGAS HOMELAND SECURITY TASK FORCE INVESTIGATIONS

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Los Angeles Field Office issued the following press release:

Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) Core 8 launched Operation Loaded Dice in July 2026. This was a strategic investigative initiative focused on disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal organizations, gangs and other criminal networks involved in illicit firearms and narcotics trafficking, as well as bulk cash smuggling, and associated violent crime in the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Over the course of the approximately three-month initiative, HSTF law enforcement authorities arrested 144 suspects, seized 290 firearms, including machine guns, and seized 1,124 kilograms of na...