DEA ARRESTS 268 IN DRUG RING

WASHINGTON - Federal agents have arrested 268 people and seized cocaine,
marijuana and cash in an effort to break up a smuggling operation that
brought narcotics from Colombia to at least a dozen U.S. cities.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, working with several other law
enforcement agencies and authorities in Mexico and Colombia, arrested 83
people Wednesday morning.

Previously, 185 were arrested as part of a crackdown called "Operation
Marquis."

Joseph Keefe, the DEA's chief of operations, described the bust as one of
the largest of its kind in recent memory.