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The dozens indicted in Georgia included a prison guard accused of assisting with drug dealing among inmates and two men charged with selling fentanyl and methamphetamine that resulted in three overdose deaths.
“The charges brought today exemplify how the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act can be used as an effective tool in our continued battle against gun violence that plagues communities in Brooklyn, across New York City and Long Island and across the nation,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace.
A blitz of arrests in Georgia, West Virginia, and New York led to over 100 people being charged with drug and gun crimes. The FBI charged 76 people in Georgia in a gang-related network.