Multi-Agency Team Disrupts Largest Gun Trafficking and Cocaine Ring in Orange County

Published on May 29, 2024

A six-month-long collaboration among nearly 40 law enforcement agencies has resulted in the dismantling of the allegedly largest known gun trafficking and cocaine ring in Orange County. Through a food truck that often parked next to the city court in Newburgh, guns from North Carolina and cocaine from Florida had been able to find their way into the county and put residents at risk until the recent disruption, according to a press conference on May 29. “We have never seen this level of sophistication, and we have never seen this level of structuring—the money of this organization moved around with ease,” said Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler during the announcement at the county’s Sheriff’s Office....

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