DALLAS, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Dallas Field Office issued the following press release:

Nineteen individuals have been federally charged in a weeping 24-count indictment that alleges their involvement in a years-long drug trafficking operation responsible for distributing cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana throughout the Dallas area.

"As this investigation unfolded, the DEA and our law enforcement partners identified a highly organized, poly-drug distribution organization, feeding our streets with cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine, and fentanyl," said DEA Dallas Special Agent in Charge, Joseph B. Tucker. "Working alongside our Homeland Security Task Force partners, the D...