As crime continues to plague Houston-area public schools, a third-grade teacher was among those arrested in a multi-agency operation targeting organized crime, violent gangs, weapons and narcotics trafficking.
“Cocaine. Meth. Machine guns and gangs. It’s a recipe whose deadly consequences play out on the streets of Houston every day and every night, leaving citizens in fear,” Alamdar Hamdani, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, said at a news conference. “North of Greenpoint, to the southwest side of town.”
Twenty people in total have been arrested including “an elementary school teacher and according to the brief we just filed, she was on the phone … taking part in that drug conspiracy, while she was at school,” he said. “And you could hear the children in the background.”
The teacher is an alleged associate of the Rich Kingz gang “who was caught on a court-authorized wiretap allegedly conducting drug deals while in class,” the FBI-Houston said in a statement.
The Houston arrests come after another major take down of Latin Kings leaders in Uvalde County on weapons and drug trafficking charges. Border towns and Houston, the largest city in Texas, are targets of multi-agency operations targeting transnational criminal activity linked to Mexican cartels, The Center Square reported. […]
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