Director Patel Updates on Major Drug Bust in Philadelphia, 24 October 2025

Another major drug trafficking crew taken down.

30+ charged for pushing fentanyl, heroin & cocaine on one of Philly’s most violent drug blocks.

These criminals used violence to poison communities, now they’ll face justice.

This FBI isn’t backing down. pic.twitter.com/wUeYxDBzfp

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 24, 2025

The citizens of Philadelphia deserve safe and secure streets.
The Kensington drug market has plagued the city for far too long. Those days are OVER.
When President Trump told us to “go get em,” he wasn’t kidding. And neither were we. https://t.co/E5BMA78Krh

— Dan Bongino (@FBIDDBongino) October 24, 2025

Philadelphia deserves safe streets, not open-air drug markets run by violent traffickers.

Grateful to @USAttyMetcalf, his team, and our law enforcement partners for taking 33 alleged traffickers off the streets and making our communities safer. https://t.co/QV3pKwFSQn

— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) October 24, 2025

… defendants in a massive drug conspiracy spanning nearly a decade, involving tremendous volumes of fentanyl, and all centered at the epicenter of the opioid crisis in the infamous open-air drug markets of the Kensington neighborhood.

An indictment is only an allegation, all Americans are presumed innocent, and the job is not done unless and until we obtain a conviction. But we have sent a loud and unmistakable message today with a ‘clear-the-block’ prosecution which, if successful, will eradicate the 31st Weymouth drug trafficking organization entirely. We cannot and will not accept the desolation of the drug trade as a fact of life anywhere in America.

I want to thank our FBI partners and the Philadelphia Police Department. I also want to thank all our federal and state law enforcement partners for their participation in Operation Take Back America, the Homeland Security Task Force, and PSN Recon, which is the violent crime initiative of the United States Attorney’s Office to harness the intelligence of the entire law enforcement community—federal, state, and local—to identify the individuals and organizations responsible for violence in this city. Through PSN Recon, today is just the start of our crusade against violent criminals in the city.

Today it is those criminals, not the citizens they victimize, that must live in fear of a Department of Justice that is focused on its prime mission of peace through law.