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Seven people arrested in March for their alleged involvement in a car heist ring operating in Port Allen have been charged with racketeering to go along with theft charges.

PORT ALLEN - A year-long, cross-jurisdictional investigation, called Operation Hellcat

Six people have been arrested in connection with a Port Allen car heist operation, accused of breaking into high-value Dodge vehicles, taking the key fobs and leaving AirTags inside to

Sheriff Grady Judd said large amounts of methamphetamine and other drugs were being smuggled into Central Florida from California on domestic flights.

Detectives with the Central Florida HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) task force, working together with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies across the country, conducted a two-year-long undercover drug trafficking investigation that resulted in 85 suspects being arrested, and three other suspects charged via warrants.  “I’m so very…