Operation Save Skid Row Announcement

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli along with Patrick Grandy, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office and David Olesky, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles Field Division announce the arrests of 23 defendants out of a total of 28 individuals, including residents of West Covina and Studio City, charged in federal criminal complaints with trafficking narcotics, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, in and around the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, an area notorious for poverty, homelessness, and drug use. For more information, read the full press release here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/...