In the last couple years a slew of RICO trafficking indictments around urban America has revealed quite a few shockingly large operations. Which isn’t that surprising considering how flooded the streets are right now.
About 18 months ago, On July 27, 2020, agents executed federal search warrants at 2 locations. First, inside a studio apartment in Atlanta, agents found approximately 28 kilograms of heroin, six kilograms of cocaine, eight kilograms of marijuana, and more than $1 million in cash. There were 41 firearms stashed throughout the apartment, along with kilo-presses, scales, strainers with white powder residue, and a money counter.
And then the big score. Inside a home in Atlanta, agents found 142 kilograms of heroin and four kilograms of cocaine.
So who is, allegedly, at the center of this massive Heroin operation? Antonio DaShawn Daniels, a/k/a Freckleface Shawn, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia-- who was indicted on August 11, 2020.
According to the U.S. District Attorney the investigation In October 2019, federal agents uncovered ledgers from a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization showing that Daniels received just over 1,000 kilograms of cocaine between August 2018 and October 2019. The ledgers reflected that Daniels returned more than $31 million in drug proceeds to the organization that were eventually transported to Mexico. 31 million in 14 months, that he turned in to the Mexican Narcos.
During the investigation, federal agents identified multiple apartments and homes in the metro-Atlanta area that Daniels allegedly used to prepare and distribute drugs. To call the seizure of 142 keys of H “Large” is an understatement. It’s the largest heroin seizure, other than at the border literally coming into the country, that I’ve ever heard about.
Now Daniels got out of Federal prison back in 07, not sure for what, but, as is often the case, he apparently made some kind of contacts in there. After all, where do people from inner cities thousands of miles from Mexico, Colombia or other source countries, meet people that will front them millions of dollars dope on consignment?