DENVER (AP) - Colorado and federal agents and prosecutors say they have arrested 34 people in a far-ranging heroin distribution sweep that resulted in 57 state and federal indictments.
The two-year investigation, dubbed “Operation Chump Change,” was conducted by the DEA’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
Authorities seized 273 pounds of brown heroin, 31 pounds of methamphetamine, 25 pounds of cocaine and 25 vehicles.
IRS agents and prosecutors from U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s office were involved in the drug sweep.
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman released a statement Wednesday saying the bust “serves as a warning to all that we will not sit back and let hard drugs overtake our State.”
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