‘Suspicious package’ received at Santa Clara business leads to investigation

Many narcotics, guns and currency were seized following an investigation that began when a Santa Clara business received a “suspicious package,” the city’s police department said Wednesday.

According to authorities, a local business in Santa Clara reported receiving a "suspicious package" in January. The package, officials report, contained illegal narcotics.

The police department noted that the business was not involved in illegal narcotics and is not suspected of any criminal wrongdoing.

Over the following months, detectives developed several leads which, by July, identified multiple suspects believed to be operating a large-scale Dark Web drug trafficking organization, the police department said.

According to authorities, multiple arrests and search warrants were executed across sev