At least 300 federal agents descended on Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park in a massive drug raid targeting Mexican cartels.
At least 17 people were arrested and 19 kilos of fentanyl were seized.
The Sinaloa cartel brought the fentanyl and meth to the area controlled by the 18th street gang and rival MS-13, according to Fox News reporter Matt Finn.
Fox 11 reported:
Federal and local law enforcement are conducting a massive drug raid at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon.
The raid is spearheaded by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and also involves Los Angeles police, authorities said.
At least 17 people have been arrested, FOX LA confirmed. The raid is part of the Department of Justice’s Free MacArthur Park operation, which aims to address the park’s “open air drug market.”
The operation also included arrests in San Gabriel and Calabasas, authorities said.
Federal authorities say they have recovered 19 kilograms of fentanyl, worth more than $10 million.
The DEA says it’s targeting drug dealers related to cartels.
Video captured by Fox News shows federal agents taking back MacArthur Park.
Breaking: 300 federal and local agents doing raid at LA’s historic MacCarthur park — where open drug use and the ‘fentantyl fold’ can be seen on any given day. Multi-month undercover operation. DEA tells me the Sinaloa cartel brings the fentanyl & meth into the area controlled… pic.twitter.com/8rcMQPppaU
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) May 6, 2026
Additional footage shows federal agents cutting locks and raiding storefronts in Downtown Los Angeles.
NOW: Law enforcement cutting locks and raiding storefronts in downtown L.A — all part of a massive undercover Fentanyl & Meth bust around LA’s famed MacArthur park. DEA, DOJ, LAPD. 300 agents. pic.twitter.com/sTGqtpScaD
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) May 6, 2026
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche weighed in on the massive drug bust.
Agents from @DEAHQ and officers from the @LAPDHQ have taken back MacArthur Park.
To the drug dealers poisoning the streets of Los Angeles: your safe haven is gone. pic.twitter.com/dNaVDitSTM
— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) May 6, 2026
Wednesday’s raid comes after the US indicted the Mexican Governor of Sinaloa and nine other current and former Mexican officials on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Last month US prosecutors alleged the defendants conspired with the Sinaloa cartel to import narcotics into the United States in exchange for political support and bribes.
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