ATLANTA — A major gang bust has yielded 46 arrests.
Law Enforcement Operation Nets Gang Arrests
Channel 2's Kerry Kavanaugh attended a Friday morning news conference, where law enforcement officials revealed the results of Operation Zero Deep.
The operation, led by Atlanta police and the U.S. Marshals Service, targeted Atlanta's infamous 30 Deep gang and its affiliates.
"If you want to be tough, and you want to be bad, and you want to be in gangs and commit crime in Atlanta, then we're going to hunt you down, and we're going to lock you up, and you're going to prison," said Keith Booker, of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Officials said among the 46 arrests, 37 were violent offenders with gang ties. One of 30 Deep's alleged members, Jonathan Redding, is at the center of a high-profile murder trial. Redding is charged in the shooting death of a bartender at the Standard Food and Spirits bar.
"We're here to say that's not going to continue in our community," Atlanta police Chief George Turner said.
Officers also seized eight guns, two cars, two pounds of marijuana and $8,000 in the Zero Deep operation.
"This is not over just because it's Friday," Booker said.