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More than 2,000 arrested – including almost 150 homicide suspects – in Operation Legend
by Ramon Tomey

(Natural News) The Justice Department announced that Operation Legend has led to the arrest of more than two thousand suspects, with almost 150 of these suspects involved in homicide cases, since it was launched in July.

Attorney General William Barr announced the initiative on July 8 amid surging crime rates, to begin on the same day in Kansas City. It was expanded two weeks later on July 22 to include Albuquerque, N.M. and Chicago, the latter recently seeing a record high in violent crimes. Operation Legend then expanded to the cities of Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee on July 29. St. Louis and Memphis were included in early August, followed by Indianapolis on Aug. 14.

The attorney general said in August that Operation Legend aims to “save lives, solve crimes, and take violent offenders off our streets before they can claim more victims.” Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District Ohio, said in a Fox & Friends interview that federal arrests under Operation Legend dealt with “very violent” fugitives and criminals to get them off the streets of the nine cities where the initiative is in place. The initiative is the latest effort by the department to crack down on violent crime across the country and restore public safety by deploying federal agents and resources to aid local and state law enforcement officers.

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