Missouri sweeps up criminals in "Operation LeGend"

Word has just come into our newsroom from members informing us of breaking news in the southern state of Missouri that some of you might be interested in knowing.

U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison announced earlier today that a total of 288 arrests have been made by local and federal law enforcement officers in Operation LeGend. According to the report, 61 of the arrestees are federal defendantsm and among the remaining 227 arrests, 24 were homicide cases, 72 were fugitives with either state or federal warrants for their arrest, and the remaining 131 arrested were non-fugitive arrests but were referred for prosecution in state court.

According to he link we were referred to, which we are including below as well for your convenience, authorieies have also seized 89 firearms during Operation LeGend though surely all they found has yet to be officially publicly known, knowing them anyway..

Operation LeGend is a federal partnership with local law enforcement to address the increase in homicides and violent crime in Kansas City, Mo., in 2020. The operation honors the memory of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, one of the youngest fatalities during a record-breaking year of homicides and shootings. Additional federal agents were assigned to the operation from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Marshals Service.

For a complete list of hose arrested as well as their official criminal charges, please be sure to pop on over to their website and check i out for yourself:

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2020/08/21/operation-legend-kansas-city-288-arrests

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