The FBI and local police this week took down an infamous open-air drug market in Philadelphia and crushed the criminal organization that had been supplying it for nearly a decade, authorities announced.

In a Friday news conference, FBI Director Kash Patel and federal prosecutors briefed news media on an indictment that charged 33 alleged members of what they called the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization and touted what can be accomplished when federal and local law enforcement work together.

The briefing followed raids and the arrest of 24 suspects that day, with eight already in custody from earlier busts. One defendant remains at large. Eleven federal search warrants were also served.

Patel told reporters that he had no direct role in the investigation which had been in the

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