At least 207 people have been charged with a federal crime, and more than 1,000 arrests have been made in major metropolitan cities since the Department of Justice launched Operation Legend in July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Wednesday.
Nearly 400 firearms were seized by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Barr launched Operation Legend on July 8 as “an ongoing, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work with state and local law enforcement officials to combat violent crime,” the DOJ said in a release.
MURDER CHARGE ANNOUNCES IN KILLING OF LEGEND TALIFERRO, 4, WHEN DEATH SPARKED OPERATION LEGEND
It was named in honor of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while in the early morning of June 29 in Kansas City, Mo. slept. Last week, a Jackson County prosecutor filed second-murder charges against his suspected killer, 22-year-old Ryson Ellis, who was being held in Tulsa County Jail.
First launched in Kansas City, Operation Legend expanded to Chicago and Albuquerque on July 22, to Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee on July 29, to St. Louis. Louis and Memphis on August 6, and to Indianapolis on August 14.
The latest figures on prosecutors and arrests do not include Indianapolis, whose operation was first announced last Friday. The arrests of more than 1,000 people include those accused in state and local courts.
In Chicago, a total of 61 suspects have been charged with federal crimes. Sixteen have been indicted with federal prosecutors in Albuquerque, 32 in Cleveland, 22 in Detroit, 11 in Milwaukee, 15 in St. Louis. Louis, and 7 in Memphis, Tenn.;
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The charges include illegal possession of a firearm, distribution of drugs, drug trafficking, bank robbery, illegal alienation of a stranger in connection with a widespread drug conspiracy, and making false statements to arms dealers.
