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Law enforcement cracks down on synthetic drug pushers
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Authorities coordinate nationwide raids
- Duration 1:41
- Date Jul 26, 2012
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We're coming after that was the DEA's James -- was warning to synthetic drug pushers just last week.
Today law enforcement for more than a dozen agencies were all over the Saint Louis area and the nation.
See -- synthetic drugs and anything tied to those drugs.
This is the grind in Edwards bill one user told us it's the third place today she's tried buying synthetic.
They're all being busted simultaneously.
You've seen at -- pictures and it.
Three places three places and -- talk and bus and not just say no we're close down.
We're taking all your stuff.
People who work around here say this place was so busy customers would barely walking and they have cash in hand and they handed over through the door for a small packet something.
At 11 o'clock every day.
Ten to fifteen people deep waiting I'd say at 1030 they started a line -- -- to watched at least -- half.
Dozen customers trying to get into the -- before it was even supposed to open.
One guy even walked behind our interview with the masks and -- State's attorney extremely agitated he could not get -- saying he really needed to T shirt happening all day long and that's I think that just goes to show you.
How how widespread this is Tom Gibbons said they'll say more tomorrow as they're -- neck deep in a major synthetic drug -- when we attack a problem we attack on all fronts.
And that's what's happening here it's been just two weeks since a federal -- that made this operation possible.
The woman who said she'd seen raids like this to other places said she used synthetic drugs because she believed they were legal.
No more this is enough to make you stop I got.
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