Lyndon Blake

Feds swarmed MacArthur Park near downtown Los Angeles, executing a massive drug bust and taking an alleged narco queen into custody.

Bill Asele, the first assistant U.S.

attorney for the Central District of California, announced Operation Free MacArthur Park in a post on X, explaining that agents were targeting what amounted to, quote, an open-air drug marketplace.

Asele said they were targeting the distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine from the, quote, street dealers to the, quote, suppliers.

At least 25 defendants have been arrested and charged in a federal complaint with possessing and distributing dangerous narcotics.

He also highlighted that the park's, quote, number one trafficker, a Calabasas resident, is in federal custody and faces possible life imprisonment.

The rest could be facing several decades.

Yeah, it's hard to believe it's almost been a year since this tragedy happened in the early morning hours of July 4th last summer where there's 27 campers and counselors lost their lives.

So the latest in this situation is regulators in Texas, they're actually trying to put a stop to the reopening of Camp Mystic.

again, nearly a year after those 27 were killed at the Christian summer camp.

So the Texas Department of State Health Services sent Camp Mystic an 11-page letter listing almost two dozen problems, and these were not minor issues of why the camp should remain closed.

The regulators pointed out some major flaws in the camp's flood warning system that came under criticism during this tragedy last summer, evacuation plans, and the poor training of staff and campers involved.

So this letter was sent right after a three-day court hearing in which Camp Mystic's owners and staff acknowledged they missed the official flood warnings the night of the disaster, and they did not have a detailed evacuation plan, and they waited too long to try to get those children out of the cabins.

What have they said?

Yeah, well, one girl still hasn't been recovered.

So that family still doesn't even have the closure from this horrible situation from, again, nearly a year ago.

So the families are honestly in disbelief that the camp would try to reopen this summer, try to go on while you still have people that are suffering and haven't found the closure from last year's floods.

So the families are known as Heavens 27 and

They were joined by several state officials, including Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, in their calls to stop the reopening before the state health department issued its letter.

So they were hoping to at least delay it until the investigations into the flooding had been concluded.