In late August 2025, federal agents swept across New England in a massive operation targeting drug traffickers tied to Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel. The week-long crackdown led to 171 arrests across the region, with officials touting it as a “major blow” against cartel-driven drug networks.
Extended nationwide, this was part of a drag net which allegedly captured 617 suspects tied to the Sinaloa Cartel within three days.
In New Hampshire, the small city of Franklin became a focal point, where 27 people were arrested in a coordinated two-day bust. The DEA’s New England Division proudly displayed over 500 pounds of seized narcotics, including fentanyl pressed into counterfeit pills, crystal methamphetamine, and heroin – drugs allegedly “directly linked to the Sinaloa Cartel.”
