Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued 29 arrest warrants this morning related to a criminal organization that operated from the island’s prisons, informed the agency’s press spokesperson, Limary Cruz Rubio.
Some of those who were arrested are custodial guards from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The orders are filled out in different areas of Puerto Rico and also outside the island, the official said. Due to the security of the agents, those areas were not specified.
“The range of crimes covered by the prosecution is quite wide,” she added in a radio interview.
The main source of income for this criminal group was the trafficking of drugs in local and federal prisons in the country, including the distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, Percocet and methamphetamines.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is expected to provide more details of the operation at a press conference today in San Juan.
