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Operation Coronado was the nationwide dragnet by the Drug Enforcement Administration targeting Mexico's La Familia narcotics network. ABC's Pierre Thomas covered the coordinated arrests of 300 suspects in 19 states over a 48-hour period as a news story. The DEA claimed to have seized $32m in cash and eleven tons of drugs--cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin, marijuana. The second part of Mark Strassmann's Exclusive feature on CBS--part one is here--told us that La Familia is accused of running tract homes in the Atlanta suburbs as "stash houses," some for storing cash, some for hiding narcotics, some for imprisoning kidnapped hostages. Strassmann's Exclusive showed us a hazmat-clad raid of a tract home fronting as an alleged production laboratory: "Agents in protective suits carefully removed buckets of explosive meth oil and acetone--so much meth in so many stages that even agents were startled."
NBC's Mark Potter chose a different narcotics angle. He crawled underneath the streets of Nogales--both in Arizona and in Mexico--where the Border Patrol has uncovered a network of 18 drug smuggling tunnels branching from the twin cities' storm drain system.
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