The Boston Division of the FBI announced this week that they arrested over 400 people over the past three months as part of "Operation Summer Heat," a nationwide effort focused on addressing violent crime.

The Boston field office, which includes all of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, accounted for the third most arrests of any region.

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Between June 24 and Sept. 30, all FBI field offices across the country participated in the effort, leading to 8,629 arrests and the seizure of 2,281 weapons, 44,569 kilograms of cocaine and 421 kilograms of fentanyl.

Locally, FBI Boston made 404 arrests, 129 seizures of deadly drugs, recovered 38 weapons and identied or located 27 children.

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