More than $10 million worth of drugs were seized during the recent takedown of a major Mexico-based drug cartel's local distribution cell, Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson said on Thursday.
Lawson and officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's Atlanta Field Division, and the Atlanta High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, said 45 people tied to a Clayton County-based cell of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel have been arrested.
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