The FBI brought at least 90 personnel to the Wind River Indian Reservation this week as part of a sweeping drug and gun bust, federal authorities said at a Friday press conference in Riverton.

Newly appointed Interim U.S. Attorney for Wyoming Darin Smith reported a successful operation at that press conference.

Many locals on Thursday speculated that the federal operation was related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity or the Wyoming National Guard in support of ICE, but that was not the case, the FBI announced that morning.

Tyler McCurdy, assistant special a gent in charge of the Denver FBI Field Office, told the media Friday that over the past two days, the FBI personnel had worked alongside other agencies, and that law enforcement executed 12 federa

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